Im gonna shoot the first thing that walks into site that meat is to good of a eatn to just let walk away.

Sometimes I do. I don't care if it has spots. I hunt alot of state parks and military bases, and first deer has to be a doe. So I like to get that under my belt quickly. And they got another stupid rule, even if you kill a doe during bow, you have to start all over during firearms and shoot another doe. Its a sad situation seeing an nice basket 8 walk by, and you can't shoot it.

It's the sad truth that that's the only way to enforce the doe/buck ratio, since most hunters that bother to go to military bases to hunt don't go to just hunt, they go to trophy hunt for big bucks.

Do you think you would've shot a doe if you didn't have to, and only shot the buck?
I know that's got to feel terrible, it really would make a guy mad to see a nice management buck walk by.

It is easy for me to identify my targets, I am planning on bowhunting the entire year and have a bowhunting only lease - I have hit the point in my life where I harvest does and only mature bucks -

The 1st legal deer to give me a shot gets tagged.I'm a little more pickier in archery

Hence the self re-newing restraining orders?

LOL, good one, matt.

i wont shoot a doe unless she's mature and alone, and a spiked buck i'll let walk(maybe towards the end of season and i'm meatless, not the beginning of season)

Around where I hunt its almost a sin to pass up a 4pt or bigger because someone elsewill shoot it without thinking. Truthfully, this year I plan on shooting nothing smaller than a 6, but might be easier said than done, since last season I shot a1pt thinking it was unique and i took a lot of heat for it which kinda pissed me off. I usually dont attempt to shoot any does until then end of the season.

Perverts