Re: Shooting Does
[Re: SGT. C]
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10/06/19 07:12 AM
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Does taste like bucks, they do damage to cars like bucks, they eat field crops like bucks. You just dont get a set of headgear souvenirs after you shoot a doe. Always makes me smile when I see someone shoot does, I want to go high five them. Jim
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: Pawnee]
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10/06/19 07:56 AM
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It will be fine if you harvest her, but I’ve got a soft spot and always try and shoot a dry doe. X2 here
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: jabNE]
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10/06/19 08:07 AM
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Does taste like bucks, they do damage to cars like bucks, they eat field crops like bucks. You just dont get a set of headgear souvenirs after you shoot a doe. Always makes me smile when I see someone shoot does, I want to go high five them. Jim then you would really get along with me. i shoot mostly does and younger deer, it aint about horns for me. or deer farming for that matter
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: Law Dog]
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10/06/19 08:10 AM
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My thinking is not the fawn it's the chance that doe will fawn again where the dry doe might be done fawning, this time of the year does are kicking the ones away that try to nurse.
A dry doe eats as much as another doe that will produce a fawn next year so the dry doe to me so more expendable for all concerned. The dry for is a myth. Some don't get bread once and a while, but doesn't mean they won't the next year. It's been proven in studies.......O.P. shoot the doe if you want. The offspring hanging around will survive and be fine.
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: old243]
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10/06/19 08:15 AM
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It depends on how many does you have in the doe family group, If there are a surplus in the group , I might or might not take one. I would never take the old grandma doe, if you do the pattern that the family follow ,will change. Better to let her die a natural death. Also if you keep a good population of does, there will always be bucks around, checking them out. Personally I have not taken a doe , in at least 20 years, for that reason. My choice is a spike buck or a fawn, I am more a meat hunter, but have shot my share of respectable bucks as well. old243 I disagree. That's your opinion, and nothing is wrong with it, but do you have facts that's back it up?
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Re: Shooting Does
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10/06/19 08:51 AM
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Had a 3 button bucks go under my stand years back with a doe in tow a guy would be a idiot to shoot that buck factory! LOL
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Re: Shooting Does
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10/06/19 09:15 AM
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Interesting topic. I for one have never harvested a doe in my life time. For no other reason then I don't need the meat, I get all the wild meat a man could eat in a year. I only take a mature buck or I don't take a deer at all and that will be with a bow.
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Re: Shooting Does
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10/06/19 09:17 AM
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It depends on how many does you have in the doe family group, If there are a surplus in the group , I might or might not take one. I would never take the old grandma doe, if you do the pattern that the family follow ,will change. Better to let her die a natural death. Also if you keep a good population of does, there will always be bucks around, checking them out. Personally I have not taken a doe , in at least 20 years, for that reason. My choice is a spike buck or a fawn, I am more a meat hunter, but have shot my share of respectable bucks as well. old243 I disagree. That's your opinion, and nothing is wrong with it, but do you have facts that's back it up?
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: SGT. C]
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10/06/19 09:28 AM
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I'm a meat hunter. I try not to take a doe with 1 in tow. That said, I have taken both if it's not a fawn. I will single out a larger doe in a group and drop her. I've taken more doe then bucks. Meat is meat. Not going to pass up a buck with nice head gear but not looking for it either. I need 2 deer in my freezer to get through the year.
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Re: Shooting Does
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10/06/19 09:39 AM
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Rusty, Sorry don't have facts written by someone. . This is my personal experience. I have lived at my farm since 1975. Have hunted deer every year. Most years I harvest a deer for the freezer. As stated before a spike buck is my , first choice. I have also taken several fawns, but no does. I guess my cattle farmer mentality, has something to do with it. Farmers don't usually kill a heifer for freezer beef, unless there is something wrong with her. Bad temperament or a non breeder. Usually kill a steer. and keep the heifer , for replacement. Anyone with a cow herd will know , that the old , boss cow , leads the herd. and its habits. As I said no written facts, just personal experience, each will have to draw their own, conclusion. Good thread old243
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: SGT. C]
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10/06/19 09:45 AM
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I would shoot the yearling, it won't produce you got at least another year. Tender and tasty too. That is if I were meat hunting
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: old243]
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10/06/19 10:05 AM
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Rusty, Sorry don't have facts written by someone. . This is my personal experience. I have lived at my farm since 1975. Have hunted deer every year. Most years I harvest a deer for the freezer. As stated before a spike buck is my , first choice. I have also taken several fawns, but no does. I guess my cattle farmer mentality, has something to do with it. Farmers don't usually kill a heifer for freezer beef, unless there is something wrong with her. Bad temperament or a non breeder. Usually kill a steer. and keep the heifer , for replacement. Anyone with a cow herd will know , that the old , boss cow , leads the herd. and its habits. As I said no written facts, just personal experience, each will have to draw their own, conclusion. Good thread old243 I can relate to the cattle operation mentality and boss cow habits. Those are a second reason for me not to take a doe also but conservation and practice is everyone's own choice. Old does have saved many of bull elk, and mule deer bucks from getting killed. It can be almost be impossible to kill a good bull or buck if that old doe is with them.
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: SGT. C]
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10/06/19 10:07 AM
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Lot's of things need to be considered like the population you have to work with, we have been dealing with blue tongue here and our numbers have been down for several years now so closer management is more of a issue.
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Re: Shooting Does
[Re: snowy]
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10/06/19 11:29 AM
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Rusty, Sorry don't have facts written by someone. . This is my personal experience. I have lived at my farm since 1975. Have hunted deer every year. Most years I harvest a deer for the freezer. As stated before a spike buck is my , first choice. I have also taken several fawns, but no does. I guess my cattle farmer mentality, has something to do with it. Farmers don't usually kill a heifer for freezer beef, unless there is something wrong with her. Bad temperament or a non breeder. Usually kill a steer. and keep the heifer , for replacement. Anyone with a cow herd will know , that the old , boss cow , leads the herd. and its habits. As I said no written facts, just personal experience, each will have to draw their own, conclusion. Good thread old243 I can relate to the cattle operation mentality and boss cow habits. Those are a second reason for me not to take a doe also but conservation and practice is everyone's own choice. Old does have saved many of bull elk, and mule deer bucks from getting killed. It can be almost be impossible to kill a good bull or buck if that old doe is with them. Whitetail are not heard animals like cows or elk though.
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Re: Shooting Does
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10/06/19 11:34 AM
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I will add. We all do things a little different and hunt different areas with different animal densities and different terrain and thats great. This is a discussion and not an argument. I'm not fighting with people that have the same outdoor interests. We have enough issues with the antis.
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Re: Shooting Does
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10/06/19 12:07 PM
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^ > I think key word is mentality that should clear it up for you.
Last edited by snowy; 10/06/19 12:07 PM.
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