Yup, I raised a bunch of poachers, I'm sure you would have had them tag the doe and have a 13 or 14 year old puch deer for you in the scrub oaks.

In those days you were allowed one deer per year during a three day season, we didn't hunt the big woods where seeing a deer was a given. There were many years we didn't get a buck or doe, it's hard to keep a child interested in hunting when they go out and see nothing. I had tagged one doe for my now 38 year old, none for my son now 35 and one for my son that is now 31.

Now that we hunt my own land around the house,we didn't shoot doe for the first five years,it's my 38 year olds idea not to shoot buck without four to a side and antlers wider than the ears (this was done before AR and we are in the three point area). We only shoot one or two doe a year since we started shooting them, we figure less than half of the fawns should be taken out as older does.During the last eleven years, he will only bow hunt, says he has first chance at the bucks and will not hunt with a rifle. Seems to me he has higher standard than you. He didn't get a buck this year, went against one of the rules on our land and harvested a button buck, it had a broken front leg and had trouble getting around, he felt bad about it, but knew it was the best thing for the deer.

35 year old son lived out of state since College, purchased 90 acres in Tioga County N.Y. last year. He set a three points to a side and no antlerless deer, didn't get to hunt it himself last year because of building a new home and only allowed one hunter from N.Y. to hunt there. The 30 acres behind his home is a santuary, do you think he is doing that to shoot all those deer at night? This year he has marriage problems and only hunted a few days in bow, he also refused to hunt with arifle and he only ever shot one doe in all his hunting time. He really turned out to be a poacher, didn't he?

My youngest at 33 hasn't hunted since he graduated from High School in 1996, he has been busy moving around to work his way up and attending night college. Now that he lives in PA again, along Rt 81 at exit 3, he might start hunting again. Sunday he was here and I gave a good supply of the doe I shot, my children like deer meat a lot more than I.

Until you come on here and tell me that you only hunt with the bow, that is when you can stack up to my sons. They have sucessful careers, not poachers as you call them and probably have higher standards than you.