Yes I pass on deer, but its usually cause they are too small. If I have a tag and the right size doe steps out, she gets shot. There was one time quite a few years ago now, that I was hunting a strange place, and was going to have minimal time to hunt that year so I went into the hunt shooting buck or doe. And for some unknown reason, I let a good doe walk by, only to shoot a buck 15 minutes later. That' s probably the only time I remember not having a reason why I didn' t shoot.