Kill 'em early. That way the bucks don't waste their energy breeding dead does.

Hey big, I have a friend who hunts in your neck of the woods. Since it's unlimited and he has a lot of hunting spots, the Does are targets for him. He say's it great practice and he gives the meat away. Nothing wrong with that point of view.

The best time to shoot a slickhead is when she walks by your stand in bow range.

I just hate draggin anymore. I need to get a mule to do it.

I know tonight, I could have dropped 3 or more. One big ole mama had a baby with spots with her. I must be changing the older I get. Cause I couldn't draw back on her.

No pics guys, she's already cut up and in a cooler. Kinda warm here tonight.

I hear you there big guy. It's been alot of years since I've drawn on a doe period. My area doesn't need does taken, I could take one every year but I just stopped getting the tags because every time I stood there with a doe in range and a tag on my back I'd say to myself, aaah, not tonight, or aaahh not this morning.

Today I ran to the Treasurers office and picked up an application and envelope and sent in for a doe tag for the first in probably 5 years. Rick James made me a generous offer and needs some nannys removed and with my injury and his offer it really sounds like a good time. To hunt new territory with a new friend and hopefully being ablel to share it with my friends here, I couldn't pass it up.

Rob:

You see why I want to document my season?

I'll say it again.....Hunting is VERY personal. Don't worry about what others think. If you feel it's in you and your herd's best interests to kill does.....then by all means....kill does. If it's not right for YOU.....then don't let anything here sway you.

Do it for the ONLY right reason. Because you want/need to.

Good luck!

Well put Jeff, we sometimes spend to much time worrying about what others think and since ive been on here you have opened my eyes more to that. Thank You
Its kind of like when I use to have my mullet and...........NM lol

Not exactly about what others think. Thats not the point of the post. Its the personal anxiety on whether the freezer gets full or not, cause you see all the kills on the internet. And it gets you pumped about something you generally don't get pumped about.

See, I had these two seasons in 2000-2001, where they were horrible. Nothing lined up. I even went to Newfoundland in 2001, and came back empty handed. I didn't see a buck for 2 whole years. I ended up pulling out a doe both years with muzzleloader. But every since those dry years, it sits in the back of my head.Kinda like a baseball's players thoughts on superstitions and streaks. You don't want to see them again. Ilove the meat, and if I couldn't eat it, I wouldn't hunt. I love big racks too. So it feels good to have one in the freezer.

Tell the truth. You know you thought it was a bruiser spike horn and were after the rack.[8D] Congrats on the doe. Besides that, you got to shoot 2 of them anyway before you can shoot that second buck. Best to get them out of the way.

P.S. Internet Peer pressure?????? Oh sure, it's real... you know I've always been a follower and gone with the crowd.[&:][8D]

Fair enough, then, bigcountry.

Here's something I've never swayed from.....

I think it's ALWAYS a good idea to get a hunter's "feet wet" by actually putting something ON THE GROUND. I used to hear stories of people "passing" on this deer and that deer and think everything was at face value. NOW....I KNOW that there's MUCH more to it than that. Whwnever I see someone say "I didn't shoot" so and so deer, last night....I subconsciously put an "at" on that phrase.

You could build a city in the distance between "passing" and actually putting an animal on the ground. I'll always believe that.

Good luck.