I hate mature does!!!!!!!

[Bill Carlsen]

Do I really have to explain?

[Michael Arnette]

Nope! But it's a love/hate relationship I love shooting a big old doe, "Monster Does" I call them. I get nearly as tickled to get one as I do a good buck

The older they get, the smarter they get!

Bisch

[Bill Carlsen]

Bisch: That is exactly my point. A big old buck seems pretty calm to the savvy these girls have.

[Blueridge]

I have one giving me fits right now.

[Ray Lyon]

Bill,
I've seen enough of these old girls to know you're frustration.  This ole girl gave a few guys the business up at Shrewhaven Lodge a few years back. I happened to catch her off guard leading her posse (she had 4 others with her) at 1:00 in the afternoon up on Banana Ridge. She was a dry doe and I was fortunate to fool her. I was downwind of one of the feeders by about 100 yards that some of the camp members who rifle hunt on the property keep going during the fall.  I think they were probably scent checking the feeder from downwind from a distance for danger.  

 

[dbd870]

Nope - none needed!

[ronp]

I kinda like them...they taste good!

[duck'n]

I had one figure me out last night then do her thing all over the pasture behind me...I REALLY hope to catch her unaware sometime soon!

[ron w]

Those old girls teach the bucks everything they know.  

[fireball31]

I spent a good part of my season last year hunting a big old mature doe. I finally drilled her the first week of December. I put up a tree stand in a choke point that she had been passing through. At the last minute I had a weird feeling that she was going to see me in the stand, not as much cover as I originally thought. I got out of the tree and made my way around to the other side of the trail. I shot her at 12 yds while she was looking at that treestand.

[Horne Shooter]

I agree with you guys....they have messed up so many hunts that I can't count them.  There is such a great feeling (though)when you finally outsmart an old gal and win the chess match.  I killed one many years ago near Refugio, Texas that when the lease biologist aged her he put "nine plus" on the paperwork...She was smart to the end and tough as a boot to chew!

[Michael Arnette]

Originally posted by fireball31:
I spent a good part of my season last year hunting a big old mature doe. I finally drilled her the first week of December. I put up a tree stand in a choke point that she had been passing through. At the last minute I had a weird feeling that she was going to see me in the stand, not as much cover as I originally thought. I got out of the tree and made my way around to the other side of the trail. I shot her at 12 yds while she was looking at that treestand.

That's pretty typical, I shot one of my biggest does in the same scenario...while she was looking up into one of my other stands

[Alexander Traditional]

They seem to stand back and bust me from a far. I will be drawing on a young buck or doe,and they are standing back there giving a warning and have fouled up my shot.

[vintage-bears]

Wise old ladies!

[damascusdave]

No need to explain...I hunt mule deer does and the old girls are as sharp as any whitetail

DDave

[Michael Arnette]

Originally posted by damascusdave:
No need to explain...I hunt mule deer does and the old girls are as sharp as any whitetail

DDave

Unless you are in Colorado where they are dumber than horse s%#*

[Roy from Pa]

There was a three legged doe around my place for 4 years. She had triplet fawns every year. She was the wisest deer I've ever seen. I couldn't get within 60 yards of her, even belly crawling in high weeds.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I hate them also, They taste terrible......J/K

I mean, they tend to remind me how bad of a hunter I am...

[T Folts]

No need.