It would depend on how hungry I was and how empty the freezer was. You ever eat back tag soup?

It does'nt sound too awful tasty, and NO, thank God it has'nt happened yet (Knock Wood)
(BP)

Food plots..... yes... we have 2 ponds fed from a natural stream coming off the mountain. Around the top pond we planted a clover mix which inturn the deer tear up. We tried a few hanging feeders in the spring but the darn bear keep getting to them. Our farm has the George National Forest on 3 sides and if you look up the forest its quite huge. We have 7 trail cams out and they have taken thousands of pics this year. It's not that were some fancy trophy only hunters but in the 5 years we owned the place we went from scrub bucks to some really nice mature deer.
I believe it's up to the hunter as whats a trophy but if ones not going to mount a inmature deer than I think a doe would be just as nice a trophy. Getting off my soap box of QDM.......Good luck everyone the rest of the season I'm heading out 2:30am back to Va.
Chuck

In Tennessee, Archery season starts Sept. 25 and runs thru Jan. 9th.
- Muzzleloader and Gun season happen within this span.
- Muzzleloader season: Nov. 6th - Nov. 19th.
- Rifle/Muzzleloader: Nov. 20th - Dec. 5th then again Dec. 18th - Jan. 9th.

Bag limit is 3 deer per day. Only one of the 3 can be antlered.
You can take ONLY 3 antlered deer for the whole years season.

Needless to say hunters don't pass on many does.

My person restrictions are NO short nose antlerless deer. I don't want to shoot a yearling buck, thinking it's a doe.

NO buck unless it has a spread at least 2 inches beyond it's ears , unless it has a tall rack and i field judge it to be at least a 125 to 130.

The guys I hunt with pretty much follow these same restrictions.