Well coug, you didn't provide a big piece of information for an Illinois boy. Do you slug or smokepole hunt? Have you already tagged a buck in one of those seasons, or are you on just your archery tag.

My situation is close to yours. I am sitting on one either sex tag right now. I am tentativly waiting on a shooter buck. But come early december I will shoot another doe and then go buy another tag at the store and keep on gunning for the big ones. I find it hard this part of the season to shoot a doe when I only have an either sex tag and you never know what could be following her or be by a little later.

But if I was sitting on a doe tag along with my either sex, I would be wacking the first doe by, as long as I could tell nothing was trailing her..wouldn't want to blow an opportunity at mr big following her in.