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Old 08-14-2009, 12:09 PM
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johnandmare
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I guess everybody has their own ideas, but we will definitely be taking does, as long as they are at least last year's. We won't take a fawn, or I guess by hunting season, 6 month olds. My father in law did that one year, and since my husband is the one who does the gutting and such, we thought it was a waste because their isn't much meat on them yet. Evidently my father in law didn't care since it's all cleaned and butchered - my husband and I do the butchering - so all he does is shoot, and it's not always an ethical decision. Not only the buck fawn, but he hit a bedded deer one time, he didn't know where he hit it, and he didn't care. He told my husband and me that he wasn't going to look for it the next day because he had things to do and it was "just a deer". His exact words, so we don't hunt with him anymore. He doesn't do the scent control thing either and we are fanatics about that. Now we hunt with each other and that's it
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