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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

fawns are nice and tender

Very well said Onestringer.