How many doe whackers we have out there ?

[kglacken]

Normally i would whack a doe but with my multi season tag this year and the property we are leasing and seeing a monster buck a week before the season... I guess I will hold out this year 

[h20hunter]

yeah yeah yeah....jerk.

Hope you whack a monster with the tag!

[Snapshot]

If it was really important to a person to not mess too much with the natural order of things, then, if presented with an opportunity to choose between taking a mature, wet doe or her fawn, the choice would have to be the fawn.  In typical winter conditions (which excludes the temperate Puget Sound and coastal regions) it only has about a 50-50 chance of surviving the winter. So taking it would be the move to make if conservation of the resource were foremost in the mind of the hunter.

[PolarBear]

Got six does and 2 spikes standing in my pasture right now and a truck with 2 bowhunters in it parked at the end of my driveway with binoculars.  They are in for a rude awakening. It happens every year. 

[Curly]

I've got triplets in my yard and their mother spends time during the day outside of the neighborhood, in a an area that was thinned/logged a few years ago.  The area gets hunted by bowhunters; there was a guy there on Thursday (and I'm sure more guys are hunting there today).........I just hope he didn't get the triplets' mother. 

There are two does that lost their fawns this year......one to a dog, the other I think just got sick.  I hope that if he shoots a doe it is one of those two.

[h20hunter]

I feel ya Polarbear. There are a few landowner near where I have hunted for a few years. We always stop, say hello, let them know our intentions and as the years have gone on it makes them much more comfortable to know us, know our intentions. We just like to stop and look at the deer.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Man I am sure happy the doe has gotten some attention 

[PolarBear]

H20, I don't mind folks stopping and looking but when they are standing outside of their rig with their bows on the hood, I kinda get pissed.

[h20hunter]

Yep, understood. Whenever we stop to look we keep any and all types of weapons in the vehicle. No rifles, bow, pistil, nothing.

[pianoman9701]

Got six does and 2 spikes standing in my pasture right now and a truck with 2 bowhunters in it parked at the end of my driveway with binoculars.  They are in for a rude awakening. It happens every year. 

I'll always stop and look at deer on someone's property, never with a weapon in my hand. I love to see deer and elk, whether I get to shoot at them or not.

[npaull]

With my longbow, I shoot the first legal deer that gets 20 yards or closer. Were I to hunt MF (never have, the bow is too much fun, even if it's maddening at times), I would probably be a bit more selective.

[Greg Mullins]

I go by size if its big I shoot .

[Lunchbox1981]

I have sat for a doe (Geiss) or fawn (Kitz) for 5 of the last 6 days.  In Germany it is the hunters responsibility for game management and that means maintaining a 1 to 1 ratio if possible.  Over population is an invitation for disease and crop damage.  Hunting out here is much different but a perspective I have grown to love.  There is no better game management that what I have seen out here.

[724wd]

since 117 has gone 4pt or better with no does until the last 5 days, my 4 year old daughter and i have sat in the blind for two nights, watching a procession of does, fawns and spikes parade past at 15-20 yards.  it's nice to see a lot of deer, but if one of the 4 4pts we have on camera don't show in daylight soon, we might switch to 154 and whack a doe.  I really want her to be there when i shoot a deer this year. 

Of the deer we've been watching, there are 4-5 old does that didn't have or lost fawns this year.  two have spikes trailing them everywhere they go and the other two are just ornery old batches!  I'd love to shoot one, but not sure my kiddo will be up for sitting in the snow and cold come december.  not sure if I'LL be up for sitting in the snow and cold come december! 

Why do i have to wait until the last 5 days?  won't those that will shoot a doe the first day shoot a gal in december if a 4 point doesnt walk by sometime during the season?  i don't see the harvest numbers being that much different, unless like me, they change areas or skip the cold season (likely thought process by WDFW). 

[JackOfAllTrades]

Both of my boys have taken multiple does from 49degrees, Chewuck, and Perryguin on youth permit hunts.  Mmmm... Tender.

-Steve