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On another board a guy was talking about using such and such cartridge to kill a Big Doe deer. I have heard about guys killing a Big Doe all my life.

Makes me wonder, has anyone EVER killed a Little Doe? Doubtful.

Shoot yeah!

Yearling doe is as good eating as you can get!

Done it several times.

Me too. Best eating ones definitely.

So little you could hardly see it.

LOL

I try to shoot the big does

I try to only shoot the big does

No one has ever killed a wet one, either.

Actually, the big ole mature does are your best breeders.
I try to leave them alone in my herds at the Ranch.

i shot one by mistake one time that was so small i carried it out under one arm. mistook its shoulder for another one in the heat of the moment. my old man laughed and laughed at that one. i still have a pic of it hanging on the deer pole. looks like a long legged beagle.

A little doe is easier to carry out of the woods.

Absolutely correct. " I shot a big ol' dry doe" is heard frequently wherever hunting BS stories are told.

I hunt in Northern VA. All the does in my area a "little does". A "big ol' dry doe" might weigh 80 pounds dressed and yet my .223 is a sub-.243 caliber and therefore not legal to hunt deer with...

Here is a 7 year old doe taken on MCB Quantico. (Jaw bone aged by the base biologist) She dressed under 60 pounds.

"Barren Doe" is what I keep hearing.

I always ask them how they can tell?

When they've got milk on their chin you know you shot a small one

Yep. And I never shoot does at the first of the season when they’re still raising fawns.

You haven't met Deer Assassin yet.

He kills them off the teet with a 7saum. And all his little ass licking minions cheer like girls at an arina grande show.

That Sir had me laughing out loud! Thanks . Cheers NC

Tennessee got overpopulated with deer to the point that "suitcase deer" of both sexes were pretty common. "Tie the legs together and carry 'em out of the woods like a suitcase"! A 3-doe-a-day limit from September to January for several years got the population back to normal by severely limiting the bucks' breeding opportunities. 3 bucks all year- - - -3 does a day! It also allowed more bucks to grow horns bigger than a hat rack.
Jerry

For most of my hunting life I have preferred to shoot does. Specifically does with but one fawn because they are almost always < 3 years old. Once a doe reaches 4 years old around here she starts to drop twins annually. Generally, the 3 year old and younger does are much better eating. The last six years I have been working a neighborhood over population down and because of that, most of what I am killing have been the large older does that have (or had) two fawns. As I get into late December and with a tag yet to fill I will shoot younger does. Most of the does I shoot are wet. I hit one doe with my car a while back and guesstimating age by teeth and condition of the meat I guessed her at somewhere beyond ten years old. She was wet and but for the chops and tenderloins the meat was so coarse and tough she had to be almost completely grind meat.

A big fawn is my first choice, followed by a yearling (1.5 year old deer) followed by a 2.5 year old doe or a yearling buck. I shoot just for my table and make no apologies for doing it that way. Shooting fawns I get 100 lb deer and hardly affect the population since fully half of our fawns never see their first birthday.