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Old 10-31-2003 | 08:43 AM
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Default Shooting doe with yearling? ethical or not?

Last week I had decided it was time to take a doe to put some meet in the freezer. 2 does walked out from behind me and the first one walked into a shooting lane, so I shot her. She ran 40 yards and crashed hard. Well, momemts later I realize that a yearling was with this doe. I felt horrible. The yearling walked over to its mother and just sat and stared at her for about an hour. To make matters worse, when I skinned her, she had milk. I know it is our responsibility to harvest does on ocassion, but after this incident, I don' t know that I ever want to shoot another doe again. Was this unethical on my part?
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