RE: Crop damage summer hunting?
" ..... a doe with fawns running alongside (which I also won' t shoot), "
You are the one who said you would not shoot. I suggested you wait until fall, acknowledging that you would be willing to shoot then.
The fawns will die quickly enough from coyotes or other predators. And if that isn' t fast enough for you then stick an arrow in the fawns also, they will stick around and be easy pickin' s.
OK, so I can be a heartless bastard. But, what you are doing is an ugly job, and you need to get ugly to do it right.