RE: Shooting Fawns??
 

so how do you know if youre shooting a fawn doe or a fawn buck when you shoot a fawn ? for me, it's too risky.....so no i wouldn't shoot one, we don't hae a surplus of them where i hunt anyway....Give me a old nanny to shoot anyday.....

RE: Shooting Fawns??
 

2 fawns together, the bigger one will almost always be a BB.

Squarer blocky head.

Single, smaller deer will often be a BB.

NUBS on the head!! If any doubt, let them walk.

1st few years, I shot several - dumbest deer in the woods. Learning to be patient and observe, it's been 3 years since shooting one.
I personally think that requiring the use of your buck tag on one would protect far more bucks then any kind of mandatory AR.

Steve

RE: Shooting Fawns??
 

Been there, done that.

RE: Shooting Fawns??
 

I have no problem shooting a fawn with the bow or shooting one at the end of the season. First day of rifle season would be a different story. The way I see it a fawn eats better and is going to have a harder time making it through the winter and raising fawns of her own in the spring. Where a big old momma doe has already done it and it probably better equiped to do it again. the only downside of shooting a fawn is that although the meat is good you don't get nearly as much of it

RE: Shooting Fawns??
 

By the time you can hunt them, they don't need mom to survive anyways.

To answer the question, yes I have shot fawns.

RE: Shooting Fawns??
 

i will usaully shoot a little doe fawn for a BBQ deer, put it on a pig roaster tastes great.