No I would not shoot a cow with a calf, weather an elk/moose, or deer in the first season. I live here in the bush and I encounter these critters on a regular basis and even at the begining of spring this year I have seen a few does that still have a couple of yearlings from last year, and a couple years ago we had a cow moose and calf around the kabin here and after the second year the cow ran the calf off to breed, and the damn calf moose came by here for about a week crying for its mama. Don' t you think I was thinkin about some veil.