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re: How long do you wait before shooting a doe with yearlings?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 5:55 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Posted on 11/12/25 at 5:55 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
I am the one at our place preaching to shoot does but I have to admit that I do get soft sometimes. I shot a doe late season with two fawns that were nearly grown thinking they’d run off. It was early afternoon so I dragged her back near the blind and sat back down. The two fawns followed the trail of the drag all the way to her and sat staring at me from five yards. I felt like a dickhead.
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Posted on 11/12/25 at 6:42 pm to HillbillyTiger
quote:That’s my bad. I guess I’m specifically talking about fawns.
What I meant is the term fawn is for this year’s crop and yearling is for deer born last year.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 6:55 pm to Purple Spoon
It happened to me when I was young. I shot a doe who was out by herself on a pipeline. After I shot I guess the yearlings stayed in the woods not far. As my dad and I get close on the 4wheeler a yearling comes out bends down puts their shoulder into her and starting nudging her to get up.
It didn’t affect me too bad, but it makes you think.
It didn’t affect me too bad, but it makes you think.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:19 pm to HillbillyTiger
quote:
Fawns are born this year and have spots. A yearling at this time of year is actually a year and a half old.
Exactly, most people don’t know the correct wording…deer born this year (whether they have spots or not) are called fawns. Deer born last year are called yearlings.
We need to all get in the same correct wording before we have this discussion.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 7:34 pm to bradygolf98
Yea I just can't do it.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:05 pm to bayouvette
I quit being mad at deer and quit the club after 6-7 years. Now turkey and hogs are my focus.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:28 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Never, dry does only when I’m doing heard management.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:26 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Once the yearlings are capable of feeding themselves.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:35 pm to geauxbrown
quote:
Once the yearlings are capable of feeding themselves.
A yearling will have been alive on this earth for - at the latest in Louisiana - 1 year and 2 months…so…
A male deer: Buck
A female deer: Doe
A deer born this year: Fawn
A deer born last year: Yearling
A buck fawn: Button buck
A spike buck is at least a yearling
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:56 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
If they don’t have spots they are old enough to survive. When it becomes a numbers game in herd management, I shoot tons of does with fawns.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 5:37 am to HillbillyTiger
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Hillbilly Tiger
Thanks for the consise wording and descriptions of deer and their usage.
If the deer has lost its spots and is capable of survival without Mom, I term it a yearling.
In addition, not all deer are born at the same time which makes the terminology during hunting season somewhat difficult to apply a “tag”.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 8:32 am to geauxbrown
obviously this Hillbilly Tiger baw is a biologist.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 9:50 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
Question for the more experienced hunters or herd managers.
Coyotes are becoming more prevalent where I hunt. We are doing our best to kill them when we have the opportunity.
Are fawns and yearlings easier prey if the mother doe is harvested? I have passed on several this year that had fawns and yearlings due to my own rationalization of this scenario.
Coyotes are becoming more prevalent where I hunt. We are doing our best to kill them when we have the opportunity.
Are fawns and yearlings easier prey if the mother doe is harvested? I have passed on several this year that had fawns and yearlings due to my own rationalization of this scenario.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 10:55 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
My son shot his first deer this past weekend. Doe with 2 fawns that have lost their spots. I would have passed on it but it was his first so I let him shoot. But those fawns are still coming back every morning and evening and eating in the food plot. We have a plethora of does so I'm not too concerned.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 10:57 am to White Bear
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….baw is a biologist
And it’s hard to overcome being born a biologist for sure.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 12:31 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Really depends on your herd management program.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 12:32 pm to nolaks
quote:
In coastal MS our fawns still have spots.
I saw one last night that was about the size of a medium dog.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 3:20 pm to mba1620
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Are fawns and yearlings easier prey if the mother doe is harvested
Shooting every coyote you see is always a good practice but good habitat mgmt (thick bedding / escape areas) matters more in long run.
First 72 hours of a fawn’s life is its most precarious…coyotes, red ants, hogs, etc. After that, they’re pretty resilient.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 3:29 pm to HillbillyTiger
If the fawn is male, shooting mom makes it more likely he will stay rather than disperse.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 5:53 pm to AlxTgr
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If the fawn is male, shooting mom makes it more likely he will stay rather than disperse.
Yep…just very difficult to determine a male fawn until later in season (button buck) unless you have Zeiss type glass.
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