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Do you shoot the doe if the fawns are with her?


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I shot a big doe on my neighbors farm last year, didnt know she had fawns with her, started gutting her out and saw movement, coyotes have been known to hang out around the swamp i was in, so i figured better be safe then sorry and put my gun next to me, few minutes later i heard the fawn blatting. Kinda felt bad for the little feller. Really felt bad when my dad decided to joke around that night and say, Jordan you mean SOB, that baby is probably down there going, "Momma, Momma, where are you, Im scared of the dark, momma." But if its a Very small fawn i wouldnt, but if they are decent size, i would shoot the momma. It does kinda kick you in the nuts though when you hear the fawn blatting as your gutting their mother.

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Fawns don't know how to handle the winter, or survive on their own. They get totally lost, as they just follow the mother around usually, and don't fend for themselves. Now all the sudden, they need to think for themselves, fend for themselves, etc, etc. they usually don't last too long without mama.

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Fawns don't know how to handle the winter, or survive on their own. They get totally lost, as they just follow the mother around usually, and don't fend for themselves. Now all the sudden, they need to think for themselves, fend for themselves, etc, etc. they usually don't last too long without mama.

In a lot of respects that's true. If you look at the two heaviest times of the year for roadkills, you will find them at times when fawns and does are suddenly separated. One is when they are busted up by the chase phase of the rut and the other is in the fawning time when the does get off by themselves leaving last year's fawns on their own for perhaps the very first time. They really seem to get screwed up, and you'll find a lot of these youngsters hit along side the road. However, that is just another test of life for the whitetail. Simply another case of survival of the fittest.

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What a silly thread, at least a few of you fellas actually shoot real deer still. I suspect that some are full of it, an awefull lot of guys can't tell the difference between a Button buck and a doe so how is it that you know if the doe has a fawn nearby before you shoot it?

Obviously I don't pass on any doe's that stumble by me, hence the name Doewhacker. I do lay off the fawns though.

If I can't tell the difference, why would I have started a thread like this?

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I don't mean to get all merriam-webster but to me 'Fawn' means pre-yearling, and or w/ spots. They get a pass and so does moma. Durring open season i honestly don't remember the last time I saw a group like that together. Consider though all the times moma has set them down and out for a stroll, how whould we know?

A 'Yearling' being of age is fair game. Doesn't mean I'd shoot but I might.

Yearling still sounds young, but I just wonder if anyone else draws a line there, so to say.

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If there are alot of deer in an area we as hunters have a job to do, and that is kill deer, many of which are doe's.

If you guys want to go hunting and not actualy try to kill deer then have at it. There are an estimated 1 million deer in NYS as NYantler said in another thread, there is no shortage state wide, maybe in some areas but not all.

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Thats why i hunt antlers or not i did purchase my lisence to hunt deer.To you it may be a fawn to others its a meal.98$ is a whole lot of meals at my house so yea im taking her.Im not being rude just my opin.I did say this before but if you have not read then this is what i said.Its your choice if you do not want to shoot doe's with fawn's then just wait for daddy to show up its not like fishing when you dont have achoice of what takes the hook.

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I don't mean to get all merriam-webster but to me 'Fawn' means pre-yearling, and or w/ spots. They get a pass and so does moma. Durring open season i honestly don't remember the last time I saw a group like that together. Consider though all the times moma has set them down and out for a stroll, how whould we know?

A 'Yearling' being of age is fair game. Doesn't mean I'd shoot but I might.

Yearling still sounds young, but I just wonder if anyone else draws a line there, so to say.

Deer born in the spring of 2011 wouldn't be called a yearling yet, now would they?

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