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You mean the ones that you can carry out of the woods by just throwing it over your shoulder like a coat? 😊 Or bone it all out and put it in an empty bread sack.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I think some of these qualify for Pope and Gerber. Way harder to hit than a nice big buck. Ed k
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Some of you guys are posting pictures of "deer" when we all know they're just jackrabbits. 
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I like them so they fit on a pig smoker.
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The biggest doe I ever shot was a 8yr old dry doe that was 135lbs. She was fat and tender too.I like to shoot does without fawns.Besides the older dry does,I think your better off shooting the 1 and 2 year olds.The 1yr olds usually won't have a fawn,usually the 2yr olds are able to keep one fawn and the 3-6yr olds are usually your best breeders and usually will be able to keep both fawns alive.So if all your does do have fawns and you have to shoot one with a fawn,I'd go for the one with only one fawn.If range conditions get really bad,those 3-6yr old does are usually the only ones that can keep even one fawn alive so you really need to think about that.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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One year in the late 1980's I was running out of time to fill my doe tag and had a doe less than 20 yards away barely visible through thick brush. Had one small opening to shoot through if it moved forward a few feet. It moved, I shot....... Then discovered I had just shot "Bambi"........ A small button buck. I was embarrassed but had filled my antlerless tag. When I got it down to the road a buddy took my picture with it. A week later after some friends had seen the picture I kept getting asked if I had shot a dog. Not to mention my embarrassment when I took it in to the processor. That was one experience that helped me become a better hunter and less trigger happy.
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1-1/2 year old doe is good eating. Must be a Virginia thing. Massive overpopulation... The 1 1/2 year old deer are about the same size. I take all the does I can fit in the freezer. You fill the first six tags and then pay $23 for another six antler-less tags. That is if you are not using State issued DMAP tags that do not count against your personal tags. We can take does in my county from the beginning of September through the end of April. If we could just get them to change up the .23 caliber rule!
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