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Thanks everyone!
Sometimes it pi***s me off as I can't express myself properly. My vocabulary on hunting matters is thin as ice as I don't use it in my everyday life.
Our school system teaches us British version of english so sometimes I use a funny mix of American/British english. Colors-colours...

Male moose is bull, but how do you call female moose? Young moose is calf?
Male deer is buck. What is female deer? Young ones are fawns as I just learned from here?
Huntin' english 101

Your English game is plenty strong.

Female moose is cow
Female deer is doe

turdus,how big do the bucks get over there.

If you've got 30,000 whitetails, you'd better keep whacking them. They breed like rabbits. Lots of places here had very few deer early in the last century and now they're like rats. My license for neighboring Virginia is good for either 5 or 6 deer, depending on location, and a bonus license is good for 6 more does.

Here in West Virginia, the base Sportsman's license only allows one buck with modern firearms, but tags for does are inexpensive. Both states limit the bucks you can take in order to try to balance the buck-doe ratio.

Across the Potomac River in Maryland, I think the total allowed runs in the dozens.

That's a very nice photo of your rifle. You must know your way around a camera as well.

I have seen pictures of the bucks hunters have shot that have weighted over 100 kilos (220lbs)