In NY if you shoot a doe and don' t have a doe tag then you' ll have a new place to live with a girlfriend named Max. It is ilegal to kill a deer in NY without the proper tag.

As far as the question goes I don' t judge a deer by its antlers I try to take them by there size and age. Where I hunt because of nutrition the deer don' t get big racks. I' m not saying there are no big racked deer, I' m just saying there are few. I think a person should atleast try to take mature deer, and let the little guys go until another year.