Spinoff of taking a fawn...
08-13-2008 | 11:45 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Spinoff of taking a fawn...
Like Rybo said, I'll shoot a fawn as long as i have a tag but i am never going to flaunt it. I don't shoot doe to be proud of them just to eat them. I continually shoot fawns but with 12+ bow kills to my credit i don't find any challenge in it - its all about the meat.
08-13-2008 | 11:53 AM
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RE: Spinoff of taking a fawn...
ORIGINAL: Pa Trophy Man
Like Rybo said, I'll shoot a fawn as long as i have a tag but i am never going to flaunt it. I don't shoot doe to be proud of them just to eat them. I continually shoot fawns but with 12+ bow kills to my credit i don't find any challenge in it - its all about the meat.
Like Rybo said, I'll shoot a fawn as long as i have a tag but i am never going to flaunt it. I don't shoot doe to be proud of them just to eat them. I continually shoot fawns but with 12+ bow kills to my credit i don't find any challenge in it - its all about the meat.
08-13-2008 | 11:55 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Spinoff of taking a fawn...
Pa....I feel like you do about the fawns, really....and we have about the same number of bowkills.....but I gotta be honest with ya....lol...
Maybe it's still my relative "new-ness" with bowhunting....but I ABSOLUTELY view a big 'ol doe as a "trophy".
I'm proud of every one of 'em (although I'm not REAL good at killing them!). Like Rybo said.....the "giddiness" will reach new levels if I'm lucky enough to get one with my longbow.
Heck....the does around here get names just like the bucks!
Rob remembers hunting when "Cadillac" came in with her two fawns....and I recall mentioning "Horse-head" in here last fall, too. She's a brute for these parts.
In '06....I heard a big commotion coming through the woods...and along came an ashen grey old doe. She was beautiful! She was really worthy of a full body mount, to me (now
). I didn't know what I was looking at, THEN. I just knew I heard another deer chasing her.....which turned out to be a little 5 pointer (that later cost me a chance at a buck[:@]a few days later. I was paying attention to him and not the total area). That one worked out well, too...but I'd SURELY consdier taking her an "accomplishment" and I'd consider her a HUGE "trophy".
Funny how everyone sees things (even individual deer) differently. I love that. Nobody' s wrong.
Maybe it's still my relative "new-ness" with bowhunting....but I ABSOLUTELY view a big 'ol doe as a "trophy".
I'm proud of every one of 'em (although I'm not REAL good at killing them!). Like Rybo said.....the "giddiness" will reach new levels if I'm lucky enough to get one with my longbow.Heck....the does around here get names just like the bucks!
Rob remembers hunting when "Cadillac" came in with her two fawns....and I recall mentioning "Horse-head" in here last fall, too. She's a brute for these parts.In '06....I heard a big commotion coming through the woods...and along came an ashen grey old doe. She was beautiful! She was really worthy of a full body mount, to me (now
). I didn't know what I was looking at, THEN. I just knew I heard another deer chasing her.....which turned out to be a little 5 pointer (that later cost me a chance at a buck[:@]a few days later. I was paying attention to him and not the total area). That one worked out well, too...but I'd SURELY consdier taking her an "accomplishment" and I'd consider her a HUGE "trophy".Funny how everyone sees things (even individual deer) differently. I love that. Nobody' s wrong.
08-13-2008 | 12:02 PM
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RE: Spinoff of taking a fawn...
Jeff,
I shot a bunch with a bow (big and small) and tons more with a rifle. When i was young it was a huge deal to me - you would swear i just stuck deerzilla with how excited i was. After about the tenth one it just started getting easy to kill doe - almost to easy. I am fortunate that i hunt some places in PA that are still littered with doe and could easilyget multiple shot oppurtunities in one sitting. After so many of them, it just became pointing and shooting not hunting. Maybe im just changing phases as a hunter and its no longer about filling tagsbut finding more of a challenge - i don't know but you are right we all do it for different reasons and nobody is wrong.
I shot a bunch with a bow (big and small) and tons more with a rifle. When i was young it was a huge deal to me - you would swear i just stuck deerzilla with how excited i was. After about the tenth one it just started getting easy to kill doe - almost to easy. I am fortunate that i hunt some places in PA that are still littered with doe and could easilyget multiple shot oppurtunities in one sitting. After so many of them, it just became pointing and shooting not hunting. Maybe im just changing phases as a hunter and its no longer about filling tagsbut finding more of a challenge - i don't know but you are right we all do it for different reasons and nobody is wrong.
08-13-2008 | 12:11 PM
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RE: Spinoff of taking a fawn...
Maybe im just changing phases as a hunter and its no longer about filling tagsbut finding more of a challenge
It's never been about the numbers with me. I just have too many does....and I know it's the right thing to do (killing them). I posted up a few last year....and didn't post some (photos). Everyone's situation is different. I need to kill 2 for "us". I need to kill 2 for my neighbors (or someone hunting with me, does). I have a family that will take as many as I can give them. I need to thin the doe population.
So it'll be numbers coming from my woods for quite a while.
If I could hunt the way I preferred......I'd likely kill 2-3 deer a season.
I'm rooting for EVERYONE comingto my woods to hunt, this fall.
I'd love to do more dragging and less shooting.
08-13-2008 | 12:19 PM
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RE: Spinoff of taking a fawn...
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I know this feeling, kind of...
It's never been about the numbers with me. I just have too many does....and I know it's the right thing to do (killing them). I posted up a few last year....and didn't post some (photos). Everyone's situation is different. I need to kill 2 for "us". I need to kill 2 for my neighbors (or someone hunting with me, does). I have a family that will take as many as I can give them. I need to thin the doe population.
So it'll be numbers coming from my woods for quite a while.
If I could hunt the way I preferred......I'd likely kill 2-3 deer a season.
I'm rooting for EVERYONE coming to my woods to hunt, this fall. I'd love to do more dragging and less shooting.
Maybe im just changing phases as a hunter and its no longer about filling tags but finding more of a challenge
It's never been about the numbers with me. I just have too many does....and I know it's the right thing to do (killing them). I posted up a few last year....and didn't post some (photos). Everyone's situation is different. I need to kill 2 for "us". I need to kill 2 for my neighbors (or someone hunting with me, does). I have a family that will take as many as I can give them. I need to thin the doe population.
So it'll be numbers coming from my woods for quite a while.
If I could hunt the way I preferred......I'd likely kill 2-3 deer a season.
I'm rooting for EVERYONE coming to my woods to hunt, this fall.
I'd love to do more dragging and less shooting.
I don't understand why you can't hunt the way you want to, it almost sounds like it a hassle or a chore for you to hunt and I hope it isn't!!! Hunt the way you want to!
08-13-2008 | 12:37 PM
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I don't understand why you can't hunt the way you want to, it almost sounds like it a hassle or a chore for you to hunt and I hope it isn't!!! Hunt the way you want to!
But if you hunted your land and the Bio. told you that you needed to take 8 does off the property this year.....what would you do?
08-13-2008 | 12:44 PM
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ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I shoot what I want, when I want and could give a rats ass what anyone else thinks or says! If someone hunts to impress others or to get an atta boy, they sure are missing out, or maybe they should take up golf!
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10-4 Joe!!
My 1st 4 deer were fawns. Everyone would of guessed I just shot a world record for as excited and as proud as I was with them fawns. I was 13 years old when I shot my 1st deer, it was a doe fawn. When I shot it that evening I thought it was a doe. When we found it that night I was wrong, it was a fawn and it didn't change a thing on how I felt about it. That same night one of the guys that came with us to track it told his kid when we found my fawn that you can do better then that on your 1st deer, fawns are too easy! My dad damn near flew off the handle on this guy when he said that in front of us all to his son. Some people will never get it! This guy no longer is a friend of the family. My dad don't put up with this stuff and neither do I. A deer is a deer and as long as the person doing the shooting is proud thats what matters.
My 1st mount on the wall is of my doe fawn. I'm not bashful one bit about telling people what it is. I'm proud of that deer. My dad was proud of it too and thats why he said its going on the wall.
How many people would have a fawn mounted on the wall for everyone to see? Not many I'm guessing because there to chicken **** on what other people would think and say. Grow some balls and shoot what you want and tell the whole world about it because your proud of your animal. If you can't do that, you've got problems.
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I shoot what I want, when I want and could give a rats ass what anyone else thinks or says! If someone hunts to impress others or to get an atta boy, they sure are missing out, or maybe they should take up golf!
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10-4 Joe!!
My 1st 4 deer were fawns. Everyone would of guessed I just shot a world record for as excited and as proud as I was with them fawns. I was 13 years old when I shot my 1st deer, it was a doe fawn. When I shot it that evening I thought it was a doe. When we found it that night I was wrong, it was a fawn and it didn't change a thing on how I felt about it. That same night one of the guys that came with us to track it told his kid when we found my fawn that you can do better then that on your 1st deer, fawns are too easy! My dad damn near flew off the handle on this guy when he said that in front of us all to his son. Some people will never get it! This guy no longer is a friend of the family. My dad don't put up with this stuff and neither do I. A deer is a deer and as long as the person doing the shooting is proud thats what matters.
My 1st mount on the wall is of my doe fawn. I'm not bashful one bit about telling people what it is. I'm proud of that deer. My dad was proud of it too and thats why he said its going on the wall.
How many people would have a fawn mounted on the wall for everyone to see? Not many I'm guessing because there to chicken **** on what other people would think and say. Grow some balls and shoot what you want and tell the whole world about it because your proud of your animal. If you can't do that, you've got problems.
I don't understand why you can't hunt the way you want to, it almost sounds like it a hassle or a chore for you to hunt and I hope it isn't!!! Hunt the way you want to!