School and working vs Hunting

[BigD]

So I am trying to convince my daughter since she will be working full time and also going to college full time that it's ok to make a quick run home and take a doe out of the back yard (we live way out of town) with a bow this year. She has rifle hunted with me for several years and has gotten bucks. I think she feels bad about taking a doe. If she only knew how many doe steaks she ate as a child. What's you opinions? Give me some ammo to use on her!

[Curly]

If she doesn't want to shoot a doe I don't think you should pester her into giving in and killing one.  Just my 

[Galpster]

We must thin the herd to give a more balanced number of does to bucks in the area. She would be helping the equation plus, the real bonus, putting food on dad's table!!!!!!!!

that should do it.

[jackelope]

If she wants to stay at work or school I would leave her alone on it, especially if she doesn't want to kill a doe.

[NWBREW]

Everyone has there own reasons on what they would or wouldn't want to shoot. That's OK.

I say ask her to come home so your family can spend a little time together and YOU shoot the doe and have a good BBQ.

[carpsniperg2]

i would explain the point of taking does and what good it does. if she does not feel like taking one i would not push it on her.

[BigD]

Good points. My daughter for sure has the huntin bug. I think she feels like I did years ago, I was emberrased to take a doe. Not any more. And I have to agree about not pushing her, I don't want to loose that connection we have together.

[halflife65]

I would explain that there is no embarrassment in taking a doe - everything is a trophy with a bow - and that shouldn't be the reason she doesn't want to shoot a doe.  If she doesn't want to take a doe for other reasons then don't push it on her.  Just make sure that she knows that there is no shame in shooting one.

[rasbo]

I would let her make the decision...But I would stress that there is zero wrong with taking a doe..I would take a doe over a buck..antlers tend to be tuff.I dont need a rack to prove anything to anyone..well depends on what kinda rack.

[wapiti hunter2]

If it was the last day of the season and she still had an empty tag, would she shoot a doe then?  I shot many a doe during college due to time constraints and basically that was the only meat I ate.  Never pass the first day, what you would shoot on the last.The others all have good points.  If she really doesn't want to, don't push.

[h20hunter]

Why not invite a friend of the family or site member to bring along a young hunter to whack one? Hell, I'll come over if I dont' fill my tag!

[bigtex]

I will say this, I always hunted with my dad, started when I was in elementary school. When I moved to college I wanted to come home to hunt, since hunting is such a large part of my life. However my dad told me to stay at school because you have many years to hunt, but only a couple years will be spent at college and getting that experience. So let it be up to her, don't push her into doing something she doesn't really want to do. There will be many more years to get her out into the woods.

[markts]

I would leave it up to her. There is a chance you might talk her into it and takeing one could change her feelings about hunting altogether