Stealing
07-21-2004, 02:37 PM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Heaven IA USA
Posts: 2,597
RE: Stealing
Would I hunt? Probably, certainly not like I currently do. There would be a lot less time spent in the stand, less scouting, less effort, certainly less satisfaction for me personally.
I don't expect everyone to feel the same way I do. Those that say shooting a matriarch doe is the same as shooting a mature buck just doesn't ring true with me. The numbers of mature does vs mature bucks alone makes it a different ballgame. Plus throw in those protective maternal instincts and it can make things a little easier to get a doe in bowrange. Again, it just isn't the same as trying for a solitary mature buck.
I don't expect everyone to feel the same way I do. Those that say shooting a matriarch doe is the same as shooting a mature buck just doesn't ring true with me. The numbers of mature does vs mature bucks alone makes it a different ballgame. Plus throw in those protective maternal instincts and it can make things a little easier to get a doe in bowrange. Again, it just isn't the same as trying for a solitary mature buck.
07-21-2004, 02:45 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 3,236
RE: Stealing
Or....skip the hunting season all together and shed hunt.......can I keep shed horns???.....that sounds the best so far
I would hunt for one big doe a year...Hunt for the biggest sheds I could find...take the sheds and mount them on the big doe cape....OH YEA! THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!
07-21-2004, 02:47 PM
#23
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 581
RE: Stealing
I would absolutely keep hunting. This may be blasphemy around here, but I'm probably more concerned about going for meat during deer season anyway; I just want to use deer season to get me by until next turkey season!
07-21-2004, 02:59 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Memphis TN USA
Posts: 3,445
RE: Stealing
Quit talking about this topic I am starting to get sick I don't want to think about something that won't happen. I leave that kind of stuff up to my wife. Matter of fact this sound like a question that she would ask.
07-21-2004, 05:10 PM
#29
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 1,846
RE: Stealing
I'd get sick of it..shooting does would get boring after a while. yeah, a mature doe is real hard to kill..but it just doesnt have the same feeling as whacking a big ol buck. sure, they taste alot better. a big stinky buck is good for jerky and the backstraps and tenders. on most does, all the meat tastes good. but i think we have something in our instinct that places a higher value on bucks.not just as a hunting society. ever since the first cave men were around. im sure they compared antlers once and a while. you can make tools out of antlers. they had a value. they still do. i think i'd give up gun hunting for does..only bow...i'd have to move somewhere where they allowed buck hunting...or start hunting there..take up a real sport..like golf..
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