The extended/doe season is a good time for looking at the buck you may get next year - remember - the rack will be bigger.

A few years back I shot a spike on the opening day of gun season. I dragged it to my truck and was sitting with a cup of coffee, enjoying the morning, when a piebald seven point ran down the hill and stopped 60 yards away. I did not have binoculars with me so I slid my .270 out of the case and watched the deer for several minutes through the scope. The rifle was unloaded and I never gave a thought to shooting since, at that time, the limit was one buck. I consider the chance at a buck that is 80% white a once in a lifetime opportunity but I have never regretted that I did not shoot. BTW another hunter did kill the deer and it was displayed as a full body mount at the county fair in the fall. Beautiful!

I personally know people who shoot more than the have the right too. I have seen the shoot 3 or 4 deer and just pile them up under their stands until nightfall.

I know another group of hunters who will shoot a doe, tag it, then butcher it up, and reuse the tag on another doe that they shoot later on or the next day.

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Glad to see some other hunters on my side. My buddies are still giving me heck cuz I let a 14 pointer walk right by me on the first day of doe season, weird thing is is that he didn't have any girlies with him, just this monster buck.

To me, it would be no different than shooting any deer out-of-season or at night. It's illegal, unethical and just plain wrong. I've used my buck tag early in years past and then had a much larger buck come stand broadside in easy bow range (most recently last year), but I had no choice except to pass. That's the chance you take when you decide to take a buck--there may be a bigger one nearby.

Today's small bucks are tomorrow's trophies.

Nomercy fortunantly in Va. this is not an issue, but if it was I would cry as I watched that big buck walk off into the distance. I for one am not willing to lose my truck and gun and then get to pay a big fine and possibly go to jail to boot. That and I am not one to break the law. (except speed limits)

The Tazman

Let him walk - you had how many days to legally hunt this deer ? He beat you, plain and simple - this would be illegal and an unethical harvest IMO.

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If somebody wants horns that bad they can go find a fenced hunt somewhere. 10 acres with 25 trophy animals huddled against the fence. Perfectly legal and about as braggable as a buck out of season.