Let Em Grow!!
11-04-2007, 01:54 PM
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Northern Louisiana, Coloaro
Posts: 661
Let Em Grow!!
I was leaving the deer stand and we saw 2 guys on fourwheelers we were driving behind them I couldnt see any deer on there fourwheeler then my cousin says "Man i think they killed a lil dog!" then we look then a deer leg is hanging off the side and the deer leg was as thick as a well it was small and it was a small deer so small that it looked 20 pounds no joke! I must have been a very small yearling I dont know about ya'll but I wouldnt have the heart to kill it.....let it grow! it might be a big doe or a big buck oneday they probly desperate but still cmon LET EMGROW! it makes me sooooo angry! [:@]
11-04-2007, 02:54 PM
#2
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Posts: 142
RE: Let Em Grow!!
I don't like when folks shoot em right after they lost their spots, at least let them get a year under their belt and give them a chance. Not everybody is looking for big racks, many are just meat hunters.In a many parts of the country moreguys need to shoot a few more does.To each their own but I would have a hard time shooting the real small ones.
11-04-2007, 03:13 PM
#3
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 357
RE: Let Em Grow!!
I have never had the heart to shoot anything small, yearlings and such. I might take a 2-year old for the tender meat, but it's just heart breakning shooting something that small. Worst part is when you go to retrieve the "baby" and the mother is still around trying to see what the hell is going on.
It all comes down to personal preference and ethics, but for me...I just can't do it
It all comes down to personal preference and ethics, but for me...I just can't do it
11-04-2007, 03:15 PM
#4
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Vermont
Posts: 22,589
RE: Let Em Grow!!
It is always a personal decision. I took my 13 yr old nephew out yesterday for his first youth hunt and unfortunately the only deer we saw were 2 yearling fawns. We had plenty of time to glass them and decide how big they were. I was proud that he decided it would be better to let them walk since they were so small. I have killed many deer over the years...some big and some that were pretty small by my current standards. What is acceptable by one person would be too small by another. Any deer in the eye of the hunter is a good thing.
11-04-2007, 03:22 PM
#6
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Maine
Posts: 12,563
RE: Let Em Grow!!
The area of the state I am in it is no does or fawns etc.. But with one deer a year to me it is OK to shoot a spikehorn which is almost 2 years old tho... Most of those are bigger than a doe anyways..
11-04-2007, 03:24 PM
#7
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 357
RE: Let Em Grow!!
Another reason I dont shoot fawns or yearlings with their mother is because I feel that even if I shoot the mother, the chances of the yearling to survive reduces as it is still inexperienced to be on its own...just something else to think about...?
11-04-2007, 03:29 PM
#8
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Northern Louisiana, Coloaro
Posts: 661
RE: Let Em Grow!!
well yearlings you can shoot the doe with them because there mother is going to kick them out soon but if the yearlings are real small I would let the doe pass but if there pretty big and healthy it is ok to shoot the doe
11-04-2007, 08:20 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,101
RE: Let Em Grow!!
There is such a thing as doe fever.
I have a friend who more than once shot very small does thinking they were much bigger than they were. He simply misjudges the size. One of them fit in the "size of a dog" category--small enough that after field dressing, one of the hunting party held it up by the hind legs like you would a rabbit.
The beauty part is that it provided some of the best razzing and obnoxious comments to ever come out of deer camp.
The aforementioned deer was actually a buttons buck and he shot it through the hindquarters. He's jovial, enthusiaistic, and always interjecting things like "Shoot big mama does so we get big bucks." If you want to get teased mercilessly in deer camp, be gung-ho about shooting big does, and then pop Bambi the Buttons Buck in the rear end.
I have a friend who more than once shot very small does thinking they were much bigger than they were. He simply misjudges the size. One of them fit in the "size of a dog" category--small enough that after field dressing, one of the hunting party held it up by the hind legs like you would a rabbit.
The beauty part is that it provided some of the best razzing and obnoxious comments to ever come out of deer camp.
The aforementioned deer was actually a buttons buck and he shot it through the hindquarters. He's jovial, enthusiaistic, and always interjecting things like "Shoot big mama does so we get big bucks." If you want to get teased mercilessly in deer camp, be gung-ho about shooting big does, and then pop Bambi the Buttons Buck in the rear end.
11-05-2007, 01:12 AM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Fond Du Lac, WI
Posts: 153
RE: Let Em Grow!!
I'm all for meat hunting myself, but how much meat do you really get off such a small animal?? Theres alot of work involved in the processing, and to me it just doesnt seem worth it. But really its whatever makes you happy. My brother in law spined a button buck for his only deer so far this year, and yes I have been giving him **** about it all season.