you cannot feal sorry for any deer just because of its age, and although the youngest deer are by far the easiest to kill, you have to stop and think about how tender that meat is,a big doe has meat so tough that you can hardley chew it, as where the young ones have meat to die for. my uncle takes fawns over a doe or small buck anytime. he is simply a meat taker. he doesnt go and just not kill anything if theres not a buck around. he had patience and can wait, but if a small yearling is there, he will shoot it. if you think about it, here in illinois the deer pop. just keeps growing. only way to stop that is by killing deer. and as many of these protest groups try and stop hunting, they dont understand that the more deer, the more accidents, and more human lives that are going to be taken instead of deer. its not like we are goin out there and killin them and leaving them there to rot. we kill them for a purpose, no matter how big the animal.each deer you kill could be a live saved. that deer may had been planing to cross the highway that night, you never know.and when people kill deer with a car, they do nothing about it. they leave it on the road to rot, so why not let us kill it and put it to use? a young deer is a good deer for a first time hunter to take, to give them faith and courage to keep with hunting.