Doe patrol 12-23-18

[Buck154]

I hate shooting does but the state makes shoot one early season and this year im on a management hunt that requires me to shoot two doe before going for a buck.

[Bones]

But the buck horns are the best tasting part of the deer 

 

[Lunatic]

11 hours ago, JerseyJaysTaxidermy said:

I hate shooting preg does.i usually shoot all my does earlier in the year, but this year I didnt shoot any.

Here's the difference in shooting a doe post rut, to pre rut. (In my opinion)

A pregnant doe might be carrying the offspring of a nice buck(one that may or may not be dead by now)- kill her now and that bucks fawns will not carry his genetics.
Shooting the same doe pre rut would have allowed said buck to not waste valuable time and energy and stress chasing,tending and breeding a doe that if shot post rut would be dead anyway.

My opinion: it's best to shoot your does in October. Fawns are big enough to be on their own- does are not pregnant.
Problem with that is: who wants to kill does in oct that will bring in the bucks in Nov? Noone

Rock : meet hard place



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That's a big maybe but ok, maybe
maybe her own genetics are so bad, or maybe she was bred by one horn genetically deformed buck, we should take he out to make sure she does not reproduce.