Originally Posted by
Weekend Woodsmen
Does your answer change at all using a bow? I rarely gun hunt, and would be taking it with a bow.
No not really.
Understand though I'm not saying don't shoot doe. I'm just telling you shooting doe that walk by your stand in any way can effect your buck hunting.
Its up to you to decide how far you want to go with it but yes a doe you shoot early in the season could have brought a buck by you at some point if she were still alive obviously.
What I usually do is pick my spots. I have spots I will go if I'm looking to tag a doe and I have spots where I won't shoot a doe then I have some spots I leave completely alone until the rut and truth be told the spots I leave completely alone are usually where I have success.
If you don't have the ground available to do that you just have to decide how confident you are in your self and your hunting ground that you can be patient and still get a deer and yes you could let doe walk by all season and never see a buck..that is just how it goes.