OT: Not a trophy but cute
 

Went out and switched out my SD card on my trail cam and after looking through them I got pis of all doe and fawns. I just had to post this after cropping because its just too cute not to share.

To think some jerks shoot fawns like that. It makes me puke!

If they all looked like that we would never shoot one. I took care of several fawns that people drug home because they thought they were abandoned. Used to keep them in my family room bathroom at night and in a circular enclosure in the yard during the day. Not sure who missed them more when they went to Penn State deer research center, me or my little daughter at the time

I hope you told them to leave them alone next time? The doe is nearby.

Oh yeah, I told several of them in writing in the form of a citation!

LOL...good deal.

Nice photo!


You mean out of season? That would make me upset too.
In season and legal, shoot what makes you happy.

Even if legal, shooting a fawn still in spots is just disrespectful to hunters and nature. Even the deer around here, you aren't getting enough meat from it to make it worth while of a tag.

By the time hunting season rolls around, fawns don't have spots. It can be a real chore for me to avoid shooting a fawn standing alone. Before i shoot any deer, i have to take time to examine whether it is a spike or a fawn, before i pull the trigger. Shooting either a buck, or a fawn is a big problem for me. Shooting a buck means i can't tag it, and shooting a fawn means we get little meat.















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Don't forget about archery season ronlaughlin. I've seen many spotted fawns around the first of archery. Especially around here. We tend to get a good number of late born fawns around here for some reason. Not so much in Tennessee and Kentucky where I hunt but here in lower Illinois I've been seeing a higher percentage of them in the past 3 or 4 years.