ORIGINAL: Buckmaster519
I live in texas and i practice deer management to its fullest extent and im only 17 you people who shoot the fawns need to take a second and realize even though it aint a button its goin to grow up to produce bucks and the more young females you kill you are ruining your buck to doe ratio which will cripple your herd in years to come. Im not sayin immediately but down the road. I know it tastes good and you need the meat but what fun about shooting something that is not really aware of things yet. its like puttin a young pen raised doe in a pen and just dressin up and shootin it. its pointless. well theres my 2 cents
Maybe on your farm in Texas that's how it is but you should know that is probably worlds apart from where many of us hunt. On the farms I hunt in VA(the whole state for that matter) we are not killing enough does and need to kill more. It doesn't matter if they are 9 months or 9 years to me, I do not discriminate. If you practice deer management "to the fullest" like you say you might want to go to the QDMA website and read up because your logic is flawed here:
ORIGINAL: Buckmaster519
"...... you people who shoot the fawns need to take a second and realize even though it aint a button its goin to grow up to produce bucks and the more young females you kill you are ruining your buck to doe ratio which will cripple your herd in years to come. Im not sayin immediately but down the road."
Mainly that's flawedbecause most of usalready have buck to doe ratios that are out of whack and the only way to better them is to kill 3-5 does for every buck(for multiple seasons) depending on your actual buck to doeratio. Antlerless harvest is one of the
main principles of QDMA so unless you have got a low(near even)ratio of bucks to does you should be killing more does than bucks each season.
ORIGINAL: Buckmaster519
Some does become sterile at an older age and why shoot a fawn that will most likely be perfectly capable in a few years to reproduce.
As far as does being sterile when they get older like you stated inthe post above, I can't even fathom that, not saying it's not true because I'm sure it is(somewhere) but I've never evenseen any does pushing 8,9, or 10 years old(we actually hunt them here in VA). And for the recorddoe fawns are often capable of breeding in their first year so I'm not sure why you think it takes them a few years to reproduce.
But let's be honest here it's not really about the herd and the doe numbers because all of that was pretty much off this is the real reason you don't like killing the little ones..........
ORIGINAL: Buckmaster519
I know it tastes good and you need the meat but what fun about shooting something that is not really aware of things yet. its like puttin a young pen raised doe in a pen and just dressin up and shootin it. its pointless.
Next time you can probably just say that.
