What won't you shoot this season?
05-20-2009, 10:14 AM
#1
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
Posts: 6,453
What won't you shoot this season?
We always talk about goals and what we are after in a given season. So what's off limits to you. (ahem..I said to you!, as an individual)
For me:
No fawns.
No unicorns... I didn't say no non-symetrical horns (Rob Bucks)I said no 1 horners.
What say you?
For me:
No fawns.
No unicorns... I didn't say no non-symetrical horns (Rob Bucks)I said no 1 horners.
What say you?
05-20-2009, 10:21 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: What won't you shoot this season?
same as usual:
1. no button bucks
2. no yearlings or 2.5 year old bucks (whitetail)
3.a sow with cubs
4. a spike bull elk
5. a yearling mule deer
6. myself orhunting companions
1. no button bucks
2. no yearlings or 2.5 year old bucks (whitetail)
3.a sow with cubs
4. a spike bull elk
5. a yearling mule deer
6. myself orhunting companions
05-20-2009, 10:28 AM
#4
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location:
Posts: 3,465
RE: What won't you shoot this season?
Whitetail, no bbs, yearlings, or most 2.5s.
Blacktail, no does or yearlings.
IF I make it to arizona, it will be dang hard to pass anything with antlers, so I will have to be faced with a specific scenario.
Blacktail, no does or yearlings.
IF I make it to arizona, it will be dang hard to pass anything with antlers, so I will have to be faced with a specific scenario.
05-20-2009, 10:29 AM
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Convoy Ohio USA
Posts: 587
RE: What won't you shoot this season?
For me:
1. Family members or friends
Seriously, I won't shoot fawns or button bucks. No younger small racked bucks. One thing I definitely won't do, that I know some people have no problem with, is shoot does that have fawns with them. I just can't do it. Here in NW Ohio there are alot of does, and the past few seasons we have been blessed by the DNR to have a bonus tag to take an anterless deer before the slug season starts ( I won't get started on that). There are so many does running around that there are always does without fawns with them, so I have no reason to shoot one with fawns. Just my way of doing it.
1. Family members or friends
Seriously, I won't shoot fawns or button bucks. No younger small racked bucks. One thing I definitely won't do, that I know some people have no problem with, is shoot does that have fawns with them. I just can't do it. Here in NW Ohio there are alot of does, and the past few seasons we have been blessed by the DNR to have a bonus tag to take an anterless deer before the slug season starts ( I won't get started on that). There are so many does running around that there are always does without fawns with them, so I have no reason to shoot one with fawns. Just my way of doing it.
05-20-2009, 11:28 AM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
RE: What won't you shoot this season?
ORIGINAL: Proff
For me:
1. Family members or friends
Seriously, I won't shoot fawns or button bucks. No younger small racked bucks. One thing I definitely won't do, that I know some people have no problem with, is shoot does that have fawns with them. I just can't do it. Here in NW Ohio there are alot of does, and the past few seasons we have been blessed by the DNR to have a bonus tag to take an anterless deer before the slug season starts ( I won't get started on that). There are so many does running around that there are always does without fawns with them, so I have no reason to shoot one with fawns. Just my way of doing it.
For me:
1. Family members or friends
Seriously, I won't shoot fawns or button bucks. No younger small racked bucks. One thing I definitely won't do, that I know some people have no problem with, is shoot does that have fawns with them. I just can't do it. Here in NW Ohio there are alot of does, and the past few seasons we have been blessed by the DNR to have a bonus tag to take an anterless deer before the slug season starts ( I won't get started on that). There are so many does running around that there are always does without fawns with them, so I have no reason to shoot one with fawns. Just my way of doing it.
05-20-2009, 12:56 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Titusville Florida
Posts: 1,727
RE: What won't you shoot this season?
Where I'm at in Florida I've never even seen a deer in the wild during deer season. I shoot armadillos and squirrels because there's nothing else going on, if I see a legal deer I'm taking a shot.
05-20-2009, 01:30 PM
#8
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: What won't you shoot this season?
Whitetail Hunting
Won't shoot -
Fawn - *Unless it's an albino or piebald
Yearling buck
Everything else is a "spur of the moment" decision. ANY doe is at risk of being shot........at.
Won't shoot -
Fawn - *Unless it's an albino or piebald
Yearling buck
Everything else is a "spur of the moment" decision. ANY doe is at risk of being shot........at.
05-20-2009, 04:04 PM
#10
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: RAYVILLE,LA.
Posts: 818
RE: What won't you shoot this season?
I won't shoot bbs,and the past 3years I have not shot the small bucks,last season I didn't even shoot a buck,trying to let em get a litttle age on them,but after this season if I don't start seeing some better deer all bets are off I'll shoot whatever I'm in the mood for whenever an opprtunity presents itself.I mean how long to you keep passing on the small bucks if you are not seeing any quality bucks.I know its not the pressure or someone else killing them.
