does with fawns?

[Bowferd]

10 years ago, a  freind hit a fawn on the road.
Brought it to me and I performed critical surgery on it. The loins were exquisite. And the remainder was saved for our annual feed on the smoker. Better than most any meat you can find in a meat market.

[sweet old bill]

were are they getting the shots at these doe's at the brown Beaver inn. I hear you can have a hell of a time on Sat. night....the tale told the deer are just in Heaps or go down the road a pice to Cincy and the same thing occurs

[Keystone]

The bigger deer have a better chance making it through a hard winter than a small fawn.

[LeeNY]

Wow, another missed thread.

Rob, If theres a lot of deer in your area a little herd management is in order. I wouldn't be caught dead hanging around that Miller guy.

SOB You got to come out of those Otsego County hills, Brown Beaver burnt down!

[Jeremy]

With the deer population here in southern CT you shoot the doe first, then find the doe, sit over the doe for a bit with an occasional bleat and then shoot the fawns.

[Gator1]

Great topic folks, as it seems that it is a personal choice, I too prefer a 1 1/2 old doe, or the lone doe.

Although I enjoy venision, I sure enjoy watching em close...

[clear]

I`ve heard if you shoot ol`mama doe the young bucks will stay around till there old bucks!!!

[MOstate]

I'd probably shoot either or, depends on which one gives me a shot. But I think the fawns would be better because if I shoot one, I can have meat. But not too much to were I stop hunting.

[BRONZ]

I took a doe a couple years back thinking it was big sister, not mama.  Her two little ones kept coming back to see what happened to her.  Finally they left with the other doe in the group.  Maybe I'm a sap, but it broke my heart-- won't do that again.
I do respect and understand the rationale of wanting to thin the herd, bring buck-to-doe ratio in balance, filling the freezer...  To each their own.  Good hunting!

[varmint]

The way my seasons been going,I think I'd take Momma and the fawns even if they had a milk mustache.

[bbassi]

not to change the subject, but I remember reading years ago in Deer & Deer Hunting, a study that was done on the relocation of 1 1/2 year old bucks based on whether the mother doe was taken out by hunting the previous fall. Seems the general wisdom is/was that does will run their male fawns out of her territory before she fawns the following spring. Call it mother natures way of avoiding in-breeding between siblings. Anyway, if I remember the study correctly, if the mother doe is taken, the buck fawns were significantly less likely to find a new home territory, opting for staying in the area where they were raised.

For that reason and several others, I'll take a doe with fawns any time its offered to me. We can always use more bucks around home.  

[Fletcher]

I look at that one from the other angle, Brent.  I want that guy out so he isn't shagging his sisters and cousins.    :eek:   There will be another wandering young buck move in to take his place.

[AdamH]

I let them walk, Don't need the meat that bad,,, but that's just me ....

[jmdavis]

I had the choice tonight. I took the doe. She was big and fat and I let the button walk.

Tenderloin, deer burger and summer sausage. Mmmmmmmm!