A good friend of mine says that he shoots fawns because they're better eating/more tender. I've eaten some of his meat, and honestly, I can't tell the difference.

I don't think I could ever bring myself to do it - it just seems sort of "wasteful" (not quite the right word) to me.

Where I hunt in NY (shotgun), on the adjacent public land, there's plenty of people that take fawns every year. I think half of them have no idea that it's a fawn until they get it back to the truck and one of their buddies tell them.

My question is, do you think shooting a fawn is "unethical" ?