I’m getting to easy on these deer.

[Nobody85]

Took my new fowler out today to hopefully take one down. I saw four does, but nothing that really turned my head. Two got so close I thought I could even smell them! 20 years ago I would have laid them out on pure principle. Either I’ve become spoiled with decent game, or I’m getting soft as my years advance. It will be my luck that I won’t see anything else the rest of the year… hopefully not.

 

[TA6319]

To me now half the fun is seeing how close I can get to things

 

[rusticbob]

Been there, done that! My dad used to say that the deer had to “ask for the bullet” It took me years to finally understand what he ment

 

[smo]

I don’t hate deer like I once did….
So some get a free pass..even the bucks!

 

[jackpine54]

When I was younger I never let a deer walk if I had an unfilled tag. Now my choice between shoot or sit back and watch is determined more by my meat requirements, ambient temperature and my ambition.

 

[Juniata]

I hear you but I'm not there yet.
I'm 32 years old, have 65 Pennsylvania deer under my belt since October 23 2002, (I know this because I have all of them written down) and I shoot everyone I see that gives me an opportunity unless it's a fawn/small deer. Somtimes they even get it.

 

[hanshi]

As a born & bred Georgia Cracker I thoroughly enjoyed the great deer hunting my native state has to offer. I used to take venison orders from nonhunting friends and filled many freezers including my own. I killed so many I have let bucks walk on along with unusual deer such as piebald ones. I've seen albino deer that I left alone but I always shot any obviously badly wounded deer. I've often shot 3 a day.

 

[COTNTOP]

SOFT, that is an act of human nature. Used to get my limit almost every year and now since I built and moved smack dab in the middle of nature things have changed. Now people bring me venison for working on their rifles. I am about as soft as it gets right now, not soft as in liberal. HAHA

 

[deermanok]

When I was a young guy, brown was down.
These days though, one or two deer is plenty for us.

 

[TDM]

I have definitely gone soft on the deer just in the last couple years. And not in the dang liberal sense of the word. When I was younger and belonged to hunting clubs, or was hunting on a friends property I felt obligated to shoot and shoot often. Once I got my own land and started trying to manage it properly my views started to change. I don’t shoot does anymore, I can’t recognize them all of course but after 8 years you get to know the families and see the new fawns come and the old ones go. Now I have no problem with my Sons or grandkids taking a doe, you gotta have meat. And I’ll pass on small bucks early in the season, but my bucks are so nocturnal I can’t afford to be too picky. And some of the softness just comes from getting lazy, I’m usually by myself and late in the evening I almost start praying nothing worth shooting walks out. Because then I’d have to clean the dang thing. Most times I’d rather go back to my cabin, build a fire, and have a drink. But that’s just me. It seems some people never get enough killing.