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RE: Shooting Fawns?

I 've killed big deer and I've killed little deer. As long as I'm not just preying on the kids, I don't have a problem with it. Deer tags in Ill. are cheap and plentiful.

RE: Shooting Fawns?

Ethics aside (IMO there really aren't any on this), I couldn't bring myself to do it again. When I was
very young I shot one that ran away and started crying for momma. I couldn't get over there fast enough
to finish it.

RE: Shooting Fawns?

If a little is all your family is going to eat then you are harvesting responcibly. To me the harvest part of hunting is always first.

RE: Shooting Fawns?

In my part of Texas, shooting fawns is just short of a crime.

RE: Shooting Fawns?

Here in NJ, our season opens the second saturday of September. You have to shoot a doe before you can get a buck tag. I rather shoot a fawn when its 70-90 degrees out than a nice, big, mature doe. They're easier to drag, and the meat cools down quicker, and there is no better eating. When it comes to meat, we're allowed unlimited does during any season, so I am usually not short on meat by the end of shotgun, which ends in February.

I feel its a personal decision, and as long as you make sure that you're not shooting a button buck, I have no problem with it.

RE: Shooting Fawns?

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ORIGINAL: kingnn93

i say you should leave the fawns to grow!!! thats like me killing your baby even next year when they arent as small you can take them but as fawns because if every took fawns there wouldnt be any deer left once the older once die...if you think about .... owell thats just my opinion and i wouldnt shoot the fawn even if theydo taste good:)

Your entitled to your opinion but you have a bad way of speaking your mind the way you did (thats like me killing your baby) thats rediculous king! There's a huge difference between humans and deer (fawns) ! Just so you know the fawns are the 1st deer todie in the winter! I'd rather see this then people shooting 1 and 2 year old bucks!

calm down!! i didnt mean it personally and im sorry on who i offended there but still if everybody had the habbit of killing fawns there wouldnt be any more deer hunting in america, thats how i see i speak my mind and if you have a problem then what do you want me to tell you?? im sorry but thats just who i am......

good luck to everyone and dont get into the habbit of killing those little ones

RE: Shooting Fawns?

Well, as a family we do eat a lot of venison...in fact I buy less than $20 worth of beef all year if we have a good year (between all the game we harvest...or try to). We hunt for the meat more than the horns. If we have a good year, we donate to friends as well as to share the harvest (Missouri program).

Fawn is like veal!! Best venison you'll ever taste. I know there are people who kringe at the thought of people taking a fawn, but if it is what walks in front of me I will fill the freezer and not think twice. That is not to say I wouldn't have taken the doe in the same situation you described...I would have taken whatever presented the best opportunity for a safe, accurate shot.

I won't fault people for horn hunting, if they don't fault me for meat hunting...;)

Mindy

RE: Shooting Fawns?

I have never shot a fawn personally but if yourhuntingjustfor the meat and youprefer fawns to eat over adult deer and it is legal then you don't have to explain it to no one. No one thinks a thing about eating veal.

RE: Shooting Fawns?

fawns are nice and tender

RE: Shooting Fawns?

Very well said Onestringer.