Late season mistakes

[oldmanelrod]

Just wondering how many of you have made the following late season mistake? You are in your treestand in late December or early January and a deer comes into range. It is by itself and you have no other deer to compair it with as to size. You look it over and it looks like a good to shoot doe, head looks long, body looks mature so you pull the trigger. You come down out of your stand walk up and find that your mature doe was actually a late last year fawn or worse a this year fawn. I admit that it has happened to me and I felt bad about it. I bet that it has happened to a lot of us who will and will not admit to it.

 

[Mike Belt]

I suspect that anyone who has hunted several years has "mistakingly" shot a deer that they weren't necessarily happy with shooting as in a young deer versus an older deer or a small spike versus a doe. When I see a single deer any time of the season I take extra precautions to make sure before I pull the trigger if I pull the trigger at all.

 

[tree_ghost]

I bow hunt exclusively so I am in tight enough on the game to make a good call. Now I made the mistake of watching a deer all year and targeting a buck that I thought was a 4.5yr old and after I harvested him he was only 3.5yr old...wished I'd have let him walk after I found out

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