---

You think it mattered to our forefathers if someone shot a fawn?Not in the least.It was about the food.This tradition still goes on today for many.It's about the food.Some are still holding this tradition as many are trying to change it.

---

---

ORIGINAL: TRYKONOISSEUR

LP this is silly to compare our forefathers to todays hunters. The early settlers had no real choice but to take from the land. Todays hunters have a grocery or conveinience store on every other corner. I think today it is less about food and more about the macho image. The food (meat)is secondary to most of todays hunters.


I've never seen so many button bucks and fawns killed as I have in the past 5 years. I'm with sproulman on this point. We usually had 6 to 8 guys in our group inmy younger days, NEVER was a button buck or fawn shot purposely. Sometimes a button buck would be shot by accident ..YES, but never doe fawns. It just was an unwritten rule.

---

---

You still haven't answered my question? Is it fun to kill deer?

---

---

anyone that thinks I care if someone doesn't get a set of antlers to put out on the shed???????

---

---

ORIGINAL: TRYKONOISSEUR

NO! I wouldn't call taking the life of any animal fun per say. I don't need to pull a trigger to have fun in my life. Sorry, I'm just not that shallow. I hunt deer primarily because I like venison, but I don't always have to kill one due to the overabundance of Grocery stores nowadays. I find deer hunting for me is more a spiritual connection with the outdoors. I don't have to kill little button bucks or fawns or even mature does to fullfil those connections. Would I like to take a few more big bucks in my lifetime? Sure! Who wouldn't. But I don't need to prove I'm a man by killing anything that moves....FOR FUN! As you so eloquently put it in one of your previous posts. There is nothing illegal about killing button bucks or fawns and you have every right to. But to brag about it is something else. It isn't hard at all to kill either of your choices of deer. Not much challenge there LP.

---

---

ORIGINAL: AJ52

This is OFF TOPIC as much of this thread is becoming.One Thought.

You'd be amazed at how many hunters need that venison to help feed the family.The only problem with the need is the "Brown is Down" theory.
If its legal there isn't much you can say.Just don't complain later.

---

---

If it's primary for venison then why don't you call the PGC and ask them for some.There are many fresh road kills that they would give you if you wanted.Are you not killing big bucks to show your ego and to prove your a man just to kill it and hang on your wall?If it's primary for venison then why don't you call the PGC and ask them for some.There are many fresh road kills that they would give you if you wanted.Are you not killing big bucks to show your ego and to prove your a man just to kill it and hang on your wall?Whats so spiritual to kill a deer? Your all at peace sitting in the woods with nature.A deer walks out KABOOM.So much for keeping it spiritual.

---