shooting fawns
09-25-2007, 10:08 PM
#31
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RE: shooting fawns
ORIGINAL: 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!!!.
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!!!.
i see no difference between killinga fawn and killing a doe. if your talking about population control, they are equals are they not?
enlighten me rather than go off ranting about mature bucks and your hunting agenda.
09-25-2007, 10:43 PM
#33
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
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RE: shooting fawns
taking a fawn instead of a mature doe is actually going to produce more deer (maybe) most young does have one baby on the other hand a mature doe will usually have 2 or more.
there was a ted nudget show where he stalked two fawns and shot them and then talked about guys not shooting small ones or white deer or any particular deer, and he was right about it, if your not looking for something to put on the wall (most people dont put there does on it) what is the difference deer is a deer and 2 years ago that big doe was a fawn. the meat for sure tase better and saves your back on the drag out and lifting it up etc. as long as im sure its a doe ill take it. ive only once shot a button buck and it was on the last day of the season i mixed it up with the doe fawn that was with it, wish it was the doe but the people i gave the meat to were really happy since the father had lost his job and was unable to afford much for his family.
there was a ted nudget show where he stalked two fawns and shot them and then talked about guys not shooting small ones or white deer or any particular deer, and he was right about it, if your not looking for something to put on the wall (most people dont put there does on it) what is the difference deer is a deer and 2 years ago that big doe was a fawn. the meat for sure tase better and saves your back on the drag out and lifting it up etc. as long as im sure its a doe ill take it. ive only once shot a button buck and it was on the last day of the season i mixed it up with the doe fawn that was with it, wish it was the doe but the people i gave the meat to were really happy since the father had lost his job and was unable to afford much for his family.
09-26-2007, 05:33 AM
#36
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: shooting fawns
WORDS??? Words for a hunter taking a legal deer?
Someone needs a life.
Someone needs a life.
ORIGINAL: 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!!!.
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!!!.
09-26-2007, 06:10 AM
#37
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Dark Side of the Moon
Posts: 406
RE: shooting fawns
Here in lower Michigan on the properties I hunt, the deer are overpopulated. I agree people here that a fawn (IMHO) has spots. In the late season when the spots are gone, we consider them yearlings. Anything with spots is never shot. The yearling does we try and take out of the heard. The button bucks are always given a free pass. The meat is very tender like eating butter.
We also take out any does unless they have a button buck with them. Hopefully, the button buck will stay with the doe longer and have a better chance for old age. Might just be wishfull thinking though. Unless the buck you shoot is worth mounting or has bad genetics, we pass on our lands. To many does here to start shooting 1.5 year old bucks.
We also take out any does unless they have a button buck with them. Hopefully, the button buck will stay with the doe longer and have a better chance for old age. Might just be wishfull thinking though. Unless the buck you shoot is worth mounting or has bad genetics, we pass on our lands. To many does here to start shooting 1.5 year old bucks.
09-26-2007, 06:33 AM
#39
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Western Massachusetts
Posts: 7,168
RE: shooting fawns
I generally do not. I would never shoot one with spots, but have shot this years deer in the past. It all depends on the season and if I have a deer down or not. If I have a deer, I always let them walk.
09-26-2007, 07:00 AM
#40
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Georgia
Posts: 364
RE: shooting fawns
I must make myself clear, I grew up hunting in Pa., we had some pretty harsh winters, and low populations in my area, I spent most of my time out rambling around the woods instead of on the gameboy!. What I saw every winter for the most partwas older deer dead from sickness, what I learned then was if you take the young out of the heard and the older die off from sickness, just what are you going to have in the future!, that is why hunting sucked in Pa thirtyfive years ago. Also, if you use the overpopulation as an excuse, someone already made the comment about older doe breading twins and younger only haveing one offspring, well use some common sence, three taken out of the heard takes more out than two!!!. I also posted that durring the early part of the season I just target the doe without fawns, well if she isnt able to breed for any particular reason she needs to come out of the heard, later in the season is when I target does in general when their offspring are old enough to make it in the not so harsh winters down here in Ga. You can make any argument you want, when it comes down to it, the future of your hunt will tell if you made the right desission or not!, my area, were for most of the hunters practice this, our numbers are pretty good, and we have healthier deer, so this is a practice Ill stick with for now!!!, there is a science to management not just killing numbers!!.