Arrowmaster

I have made it a practice of mine not to shoot fawns. I see no fun in killing a fawn. Lets face it fawns are young and easier to kill. I myself would rather kill a mature doe or buck. Im sure that I could kill as many fawns as I wanted. Their way to easy. But thats my 2 cents...

GMMAT

Thanks, Rob....and I will add that I won't be posting "success" photos if I ever do so. I won't be ashamed of it....but I'm cognizant of others.

Ben / PA

I have only shot one fawn. I am not ashamed of it. It was years ago during a cold season. My brother shot her mother and she wouldn't leave. I figured if she was that dependent onher mother that she probably would not make it. I agree that it is totally necessary to kill any doe in a poor doe to buck ration situation.

wack

I get pumped up no matter what I'm shooting at, other than that the killing isn't the fun part to me no matter what size or sex it is. If hunting was all about fun I would never hunt. It's not fun killing, not fun field dressing, not fun dragging, skinning, butchering.....fact is meat is meat and they're all made of meat and some meat is better than others. If you're hunting for the challenge, all the more power to you. I too enjoy the hunt, just choose to end more hunting days with meat for the freezer. Bow hunting allows me to do that. Once the freezer is full, I can go after the big one. As I get older, the kids are moving out, maybe someday I can trophy hunt too. Until then, yearling doe are number 1 on my hit list.

ranger56528

Iam kinda in the same thought as you wack.BUT Itry to keep it at 1 1/2-3 yr old doe's...someday I will start trophy hunting but Iam only 46 yrs young...when I start to go for the wall hangers it will be for BIG one's i.e..buck,elk,moose,bear,sheep,goat.But for now I will just help the deer heards and take out doe's..

Texas Hunter

NO, never have and never will.

TFOX

I have no problem with and see no problem with it.I draw the line at spots(personally) but with as many deer as I can put in the freezer with my kids and I hunting.I can get alot of good eating out of them.I also feel they taste better.

Not to mention population controll,it is needed where I hunt.


Heck,my stepdad has on more than one occasion,passed on bigger deer to shoot the small ones.

TEmbry

you havent had tasty deer until youve had a whole smoked fawn......delicious! lol

my friends stepdad killed a spotted fawn last year on bow seasons opener, skinned it and froze it whole. then we smoked it allllll day, and had a spicy barbeque rub for it with a little louisiana hot sauce dippin sauce and we picked that sucker to the bone.

i can see where some of you dont want to shoot one, but i personally would after tastin that little bugger. other than the possibility of it being a buck fawn, there is no difference between a doe fawn and a year older doe, except tenderness.

devil dog

The only thing that will happen when you shoot fawns and yearlings is, YOUR DESTROYING THE FUTURE OF YOUR HUNTING!!!!. If you want to screw up your hunting in future years go for it, just dont do it around my neck of the woods, yes there would be words!. Personally in the early season Ill only go after mature bucs and does that have no fawns with them, they need to come out of the heard. By mid October the fawns will make the winter so I will go after most mature does. Keep one thing in mind when you think about shooting a fawn or a yearling, was his daddy the pope&young that you have been after for years!!!!, maybeeeee!!!.

TFOX

You could be destroying your hunting future by NOT shooting them.If the deer are overpopulated,they need to be taken out.

Come around my neck of the woods and come see the dead deer laying in the woods from disease.