Just Couldn't Bring Myself To Draw On Her

[13BVET]

Well, finally tried bowhunting back here (neighbors couldn't care less). Had a doe come barreling in-thought a buck was chasing. That was not the case. The doe offered a nice broadside at 25 yards. Then, I saw what was following-a fawn so young, it wasn't funny. Decided to let the doe walk. I just couldn't bring myself to take the doe, with such a young fawn in tow. Has anyone else run into these dilemmas?

[irish_redneck]

take the mom, then wait for the fawn to come back and check on mom and take it too... if you have the tags that is.

[GreeneHunter]

Last year I had a Doe Tag to fill and when big momma came walking into sight I was ready to pull the trigger , then I spot behind her was her two little twins frolicking and not paying attention to Mom .... I let them pass !

[irish_redneck]

if they're twins, and you line them up for a single kill... can't you just connect one tag through both their ears?

[13BVET]

The fawn was so small, it was unbelieveable. This thing was TINY.

[irish_redneck]

lamb of the deer world , rotiseree...

[Elmo]

I would have let it pass as well.

[joe12]

i give a pass too. I just feel bad about it

[First-light]

This late in the year the fawn being so small will need mother to help out. I pass.

[shawnhu]

I'd probably let it go. It's one thing to shoot the fawn, but another to have it lose mom and suffer.

[growalot]

I've made those decisions many a time...and when you get down to gut the doe you decided to take and a fawn comes up and stands 20yrds away bleating...it re-enforces those previous decisions .....

[crappyice]

What's the likelihood of it surviving even with the mother if it is that small at this point and weather changing? I'd take the shot. Mama is about to hook up with some horny buck and leave little one alone anyway...a couple of Yotes ae lining up at the buffet table already.

[ATbuckhunter]

The fawn was so small, it was unbelieveable. This thing was TINY.

Watch it turn into a booner in the future.

[Marcygirl]

Let the momma walk take the baby, nothing like some yummy veal, pus not such a hard drag could probley throw it over your sholder, mother will be abandoning it soon anyways for some greedy buck

[Marcygirl]

Let the momma walk take the baby, nothing like some yummy veal, pus not such a hard drag could probley throw it over your sholder, mother will be abandoning it soon anyways for some greedy buck

[13BVET]

What's the likelihood of it surviving even with the mother if it is that small at this point and weather changing? I'd take the shot. Mama is about to hook up with some horny buck and leave little one alone anyway...a couple of Yotes ae lining up at the buffet table already.

You make a very valid point. These two come through here literally every day. In my younger days, I wouldn't have even thought twice about it. Today, though, for some reason, it nags at me. Baffles the mind!

[arrow nocker]

depends on if i ate breakfast and i am hungry or not.Hunger will make you do some awfull things.

[Four Season Whitetail's]

Seems we have a few yet to mature as hunters, Can only hope not as people as well!

[SteveB]

Mature hunter?

[crappyice]

Fourseason.....Huh?

[arrow nocker]

[arrow nocker]

Thats what a"mature hunter" is.

[Four Season Whitetail's]

Line them up if their twins? One tag through both ears?

[SteveB]

Better description then the one we may or may not hear.

[irish_redneck]

Line them up if their twins? One tag through both ears?

It was a joke Four Season's, I'm sorry that your sense of humor has yet to come to maturity in you, though from previous posts of yours I shouldn't be suprised.