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Re: Yearling deer?
[Re: Ave]
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09/24/22 10:25 PM
09/24/22 10:25 PM
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Swamp Wolf
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Obviously, many don’t even know what they are seeing, much less shooting. A fawn is NOT a yearling. A yearling is an animal that is least one year old. DUH!!!!! So easy to Google things now days and appear a little smarter. I know there aren’t many farms left today where one can go to Grandpa’s and not entirely act like a city boy, but come on! Almost all the hunters/ outdoorsmen I know up here refers to fawns as yearlings. Must be a northern thing. Down South we refer to them as yearlings also. Must be an Arizona thing that they Googled or something...lol
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Re: Yearling deer?
[Re: Ave]
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09/24/22 10:48 PM
09/24/22 10:48 PM
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SundanceMtnMan
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We call them fawns or toeheads if they are less then one year old, yearlings are one to two years old and does or bucks are over two. I have shot all three but now prefer yearlings(male or female).
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Re: Yearling deer?
[Re: Ave]
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09/24/22 10:52 PM
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all I am going to say is they always look bigger and when they are running
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Re: Yearling deer?
[Re: Ave]
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09/25/22 05:57 AM
09/25/22 05:57 AM
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danny clifton
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I prefer adult deer. More meat and the tag costs the same. Killing YOY deer hasn't hurt their population any so I have no problem with it. People I know deer hunting right now are bow hunting and mostly shooting antlers anyway. You can buy doe tags now but I dont know anybody hunting them yet. I wait till Jan when I am not forced to buy a fifty dollar either sex tag before I can buy a doe tag for 20. Twenty is to high IMO but I can still come out ahead at that price if I shoot only adults.
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Re: Yearling deer?
[Re: Ave]
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09/25/22 06:09 AM
09/25/22 06:09 AM
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Shoot whatever you want or prefer- everyone will have different answers., think about your current buck to doe ratio and harvest accordingly. You can make a strong case that for deer management a fawn 6-7 months old is a harvest of 1:1, in contrast- shooting a bred doe during gun season could hypothetically reduce your herd by 3 deer the following spring. A lot of button bucks get harvested on antlerless tags and probably the only negative if unexperienced hunters have trouble with identification.
Last edited by Eagleye; 09/25/22 06:11 AM.
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Re: Yearling deer?
[Re: Ave]
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09/25/22 06:30 AM
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When I worked on the PA Elk program, we would occasionally dart elk that we knew were over a year old that still have faint spots on them. I was talking to a friend that worked on the program with me after the last thread about late born fawns. He was telling me that many in the deer biology field now refer to yearlings as those that have survived their first winter.
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