Wolf,
You are not offending anyone. As Len said, the population here is out of control. We have close to 300,000 deer in the tiny state of Maryland. Maryland is a good agriculture state that produces tons of different crops and lots of bedding areas. The liberal gun snatchers and anti-hunters have only helped to increase the herd to, IMHO, the point of oversaturation. We have a responsibility to help keep the whole herd healthy. You can't just keep developing land into new housing, schools and shopping malls, pushing the deer into an overcrowding situation, w/o having some plan to thin the herd. Up till now the liberals didn't acted like they cared about the health of the animals. Just this year we are allowed to hunt on certain Sundays because the problem is so bad. I think Sarah Brady hit one with her car
No hunter wants to leave a fawn w/o a mother to take care of it. That is human nature. Regardless, I accepted the terms of the deal and now I must live up to my end of the bargin. Unfortunately there is no real way to know if the doe you shoot has a fawn in the thicket, but shoot the does I must and hope for the best. I have already seen a dozen or so buck in velvet. Groups of 20-25 deer traveling in a herd. In some small way this is a form of QDM I guess.
This farm backs up to a huge state park and my guess is that you could shoot a deer a day and never put a dent in the population.
So the short answer is "no" you are not offending anyone, this is just a job that has to be done, and if not by me and a few of my close friends...then it will be done by someone else![]