I was able to go hunting this week for only my second time this year. I moved this summer and have to travel 3.5 hours to my old hunting grounds---and so I can't go very often. Thursday evening I saw a several does come into the green field I was hunting over a little after sunset.

I picked out a nice one at about 250 yards. She was alone---I shot and she went down. I took her to the processor a couple miles up the road and noticed that this doe (approx. 120 lbs on the hoof) was still lactating---meaning that she was still nursing some young ones. They were not with her when I shot---or I might have reconsidered.

While I had no way of knowing she had young ones somewhere---and I would do the same thing again---my question is---What do think will happen to her little ones? Would any of you done anything different? I was looking forward to having some venison in the freezer.