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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5498127" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Biologically, it makes no difference whether you kill a dry doe, a doe with fawns, or a doe fawn. It's one less mouth to feed, but 1 less deer that could produce a buck fawn the following year...</p><p></p><p>THATs the real dilemma... whether to shoot a doe at all or not. In MOST cases, shooting one doe isn't going to help or hurt. But there are properties that there are not enough resources to feed the herd, and shooting just one hurts... you need to shoot 7 or 8 to make a difference. Conversely, on properties with abundant food and are well below carrying capacity, why shoot even a single one until the population has a chance to grow to closer to carrying capacity.</p><p></p><p>All that being said, we (kids) only shoot dry does. We have had so much coyote predation of fawns we never want to kill the momma doe who is smart enough or lucky enough to get her fawn to survive the coyotes. It may or may not be true, but I feel those does are more likely to successfully rear a fawn again the following year compared to the dry does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5498127, member: 2805"] Biologically, it makes no difference whether you kill a dry doe, a doe with fawns, or a doe fawn. It's one less mouth to feed, but 1 less deer that could produce a buck fawn the following year... THATs the real dilemma... whether to shoot a doe at all or not. In MOST cases, shooting one doe isn't going to help or hurt. But there are properties that there are not enough resources to feed the herd, and shooting just one hurts... you need to shoot 7 or 8 to make a difference. Conversely, on properties with abundant food and are well below carrying capacity, why shoot even a single one until the population has a chance to grow to closer to carrying capacity. All that being said, we (kids) only shoot dry does. We have had so much coyote predation of fawns we never want to kill the momma doe who is smart enough or lucky enough to get her fawn to survive the coyotes. It may or may not be true, but I feel those does are more likely to successfully rear a fawn again the following year compared to the dry does. [/QUOTE]
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