ORIGINAL: 1shotkill1993
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Do they (does) need taking whre you hunt?
If so....there is NEVER a bad time to take them. Let's say you took a doe in Sept. v. December. Didn't you kill those 2 potential buck fawns then, also?
I don't think so, because the does haven't been bred yet? In december they are pregnant and have the potential to have those future monster bucks in them. But in September they aren't preganant?
Am I right or wrong. I really dont know.
Either way they wont produce fawns. If you shoot her when she is not pregnant, she wont produce fawns, if you shoot her when she is pregnant, she wont produce fawns. It's the same thing. Bottom line, no matter when you take a doe, she isn't going to produce fawns the next year.
Let's break this down......
You start out (hypothetically speaking) with 10 does at the beginning of season. Assuming all are bred, and none are shot, you have the potential to produce 20 fawns next year. 10x2=20
Ok let's say in September you take 3 does, the rest are bred and survive until next year and produce fawns 10-3=7does 7x2= 14 fawns next year
Ok let's say you wait until Dec or January to take the 3 does (all 10 are pregnant), the rest survive and give birth, so we have 10 does carrying 20 fawns we take 3 does, leaving 7 does, carrying 2 fawns each, still leaving us with 14 fawns next year.
Hope that made sense. Thats as simple as I could make it.