shooting fawns
09-28-2007, 07:19 AM
#71
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 131
RE: shooting fawns
Some of you elitests crack me up.
The I only shoot big deer attitudes is funny, but if thats how you want to hunt fine. Have fun.
I will shoot ANY legal deer that I have a clean shot at with few exceptions. However, I will not shoot a deer in spots.
The area I hunt is over run with white tail does and is in serious need of thinning them out, be it 1 1/2 yr olds or 8 month old does (fawns) call it what you like It's a legal deer.
I will not now, nor have I ever judged another hunter for taking legal game.
I hunt to fill a freezer and If I get a nice buck for the wall, well thats just a bonus.
Happy hunting
The I only shoot big deer attitudes is funny, but if thats how you want to hunt fine. Have fun.
I will shoot ANY legal deer that I have a clean shot at with few exceptions. However, I will not shoot a deer in spots.
The area I hunt is over run with white tail does and is in serious need of thinning them out, be it 1 1/2 yr olds or 8 month old does (fawns) call it what you like It's a legal deer.
I will not now, nor have I ever judged another hunter for taking legal game.
I hunt to fill a freezer and If I get a nice buck for the wall, well thats just a bonus.
Happy hunting
09-28-2007, 01:54 PM
#72
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location:
Posts: 447
RE: shooting fawns
ORIGINAL: dragonslayer1
So much for wise use of a God given resource. Logging is a major industry here. What would happen if loggers cut 5 year old pines instead of 20? They'd be out of business in short order. Are we that greedy, is it all about me? Is it all about carving another notch in your bow? Forgive me SRH but I don't get my kicks out of shooting babies.
So much for wise use of a God given resource. Logging is a major industry here. What would happen if loggers cut 5 year old pines instead of 20? They'd be out of business in short order. Are we that greedy, is it all about me? Is it all about carving another notch in your bow? Forgive me SRH but I don't get my kicks out of shooting babies.
09-28-2007, 04:06 PM
#75
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location:
Posts: 83
RE: shooting fawns
Hey QS that picIS funny, even if I'm not gon'na shoot one!
We say we don't care what the nonhunters think, but we've got to remember we are in a very small minority in this country now. All it would take insome places is for PETA to put some negativeads and pictures in the papers andthere could be a referendum on the ballot to ban bowhunting.Don't think it could happen? Ask the lion hunters in California or the bear hunters in Florida. We've got so many bears here in north Florida they are like a plague of giant rats. The state has turned a fine game animal into vermin that are despised by the locals here. They have hired guns that trap and kill them just like they do deer in some places. Let's be good stewards of the rights we still have.
We say we don't care what the nonhunters think, but we've got to remember we are in a very small minority in this country now. All it would take insome places is for PETA to put some negativeads and pictures in the papers andthere could be a referendum on the ballot to ban bowhunting.Don't think it could happen? Ask the lion hunters in California or the bear hunters in Florida. We've got so many bears here in north Florida they are like a plague of giant rats. The state has turned a fine game animal into vermin that are despised by the locals here. They have hired guns that trap and kill them just like they do deer in some places. Let's be good stewards of the rights we still have.
09-28-2007, 04:24 PM
#76
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: TN
Posts: 2,089
RE: shooting fawns
ORIGINAL: quiksilver
I worked hard on this picture, so I'm going to post it again. I'm a rebel like that sometimes.
I worked hard on this picture, so I'm going to post it again. I'm a rebel like that sometimes.
Would you have a head or body mount. A body mount would only cost $350 for that monster. [&:]
09-28-2007, 04:51 PM
#77
Super Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Central Utah
Posts: 4,815
RE: shooting fawns
One of the arguements used against hunting is that hunters don't kill off prey species in a natural way. As in, we tend to go after the biggest and healthiest of the herd.
Anyhow, to shoot or not shoot a fawn or any other deer should have everything to do with your own individual choice (and legality of course) and it shouldn't have anything to do with what somebody else will think.
Some people hate it when you shoot does, some people hate it when you shoot bucks under 5.5 years of age, Peta hates it when we shoot anything.
BLEEP them. I hunt to make myself happy. No one else.
Anyhow, to shoot or not shoot a fawn or any other deer should have everything to do with your own individual choice (and legality of course) and it shouldn't have anything to do with what somebody else will think.
Some people hate it when you shoot does, some people hate it when you shoot bucks under 5.5 years of age, Peta hates it when we shoot anything.
BLEEP them. I hunt to make myself happy. No one else.
09-28-2007, 05:28 PM
#78
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 2,385
RE: shooting fawns
ORIGINAL: HNI_Christine
One of the arguements used against hunting is that hunters don't kill off prey species in a natural way. As in, we tend to go after the biggest and healthiest of the herd.
Anyhow, to shoot or not shoot a fawn or any other deer should have everything to do with your own individual choice (and legality of course) and it shouldn't have anything to do with what somebody else will think.
Some people hate it when you shoot does, some people hate it when you shoot bucks under 5.5 years of age, Peta hates it when we shoot anything.
BLEEP them. I hunt to make myself happy. No one else.
One of the arguements used against hunting is that hunters don't kill off prey species in a natural way. As in, we tend to go after the biggest and healthiest of the herd.
Anyhow, to shoot or not shoot a fawn or any other deer should have everything to do with your own individual choice (and legality of course) and it shouldn't have anything to do with what somebody else will think.
Some people hate it when you shoot does, some people hate it when you shoot bucks under 5.5 years of age, Peta hates it when we shoot anything.
BLEEP them. I hunt to make myself happy. No one else.
Not trying to be the"master of the obvious", but..... this post pretty much sums it up.
09-28-2007, 07:36 PM
#79
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 1,653
RE: shooting fawns
Calling hunters who shoot legal but small deer"baby killers" is what gives the anti's their ammo not the actual shooting of the deer. If it's a legal deeryou have every right to lace it thru the lungs. Ethics is a personal thing. The wardens do the rest. Wouldn't be great if we could all be trophy hunters...BUT we are not, were just hunters.
09-28-2007, 09:50 PM
#80
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location:
Posts: 83
RE: shooting fawns
I can see I've struck a nerve.Maybesomebody should start a new teamcalled "Fawn Masters". How 'bout a new outdoor show titled "Fawn Busters" where all they shoot are fawns. Anything that field dresses over twenty pounds is off limits!