ORIGINAL: early in
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
If population control is your main ojective.......
There is NEVER a "bad time" to kill a doe.
If I were a farmer experiencing crop damage issues, I'd view deer hunting and "deer", in general, a lot differently. I see nothing wrong with it. It's good table fare (obviously), and there's really NO REASON to gut the animal. Honestly......the crop damage deer killed, here, are left to lay.
I think anyone who shoots a deer and just leaves them lay only to rot, should themselves be shot and left to rot! What's wrong with donating them to a food bank for less fortunate people to consume?
Shooting them and leaving them lay happens a lot here also.
Personally I wouldn't have a problem with taking does that time of year. Someone has to control the Doe population, and that control is Not always pretty but very necessary.
Dan