Originally Posted by
7.62NATO
It is a personal goal of mine to kill one fawn per season. I love venison, and a young, small deer is by far the tastiest you'll find. It doesn't matter their or size; all deer want to live as eagerly as the next. So why does their size matter to us?
Thanks for the responses everyone, you're backing up what I suspected to be the case but wasn't sure because of my long absence from hunting. Personally I didn't care about the size much, although a bigger doe was what the landowner described as optimal. After the first morning he said I might just need to go ahead and take a small one the next day, so I did.
Love the avatar by the way, the kill was with an 18.5" M14 (semi auto) with iron sights paced off right at 100 yards. Hornady 155gr Amax.