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re: How long do you wait before shooting a doe with yearlings?
Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:23 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:23 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
There are times I'm doe hunting and when I am, I work hard to avoid shooting a button buck.The best way to avoid shooting a button buck is shooting a doe w/ young ones. I've killed two button bucks that were supposed to be does and I felt bad both times. Having said that, I won't shoot a fawn, but I don't remember ever seeing a fawn when deer hunting. I'm also very about shooting a "lone" doe, since that lone doe is frequently a button buck. Having said that, the deer I shot a few weeks earlier during the Arkansas Alternative Firearms Season was a lone doe. I'd seen her many times on the game camera and also inspected her closely at 50 yards w/ 7X binoculars before pulling the trigger.
Given those parameters, I have no qualms harvesting a doe. For me to kill a buck, it's gotta be one I'll mount or a bad set of antlers that should be removed from the herd.
Given those parameters, I have no qualms harvesting a doe. For me to kill a buck, it's gotta be one I'll mount or a bad set of antlers that should be removed from the herd.
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Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:29 pm to bradygolf98
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I've heard enough stories of people shooting a mama with yearlings around, and then having the yearlings whimper when going to pack up the now dead mama that I just generally want to try to avoid that situation.
Thats what your sidearm is for.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:28 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
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Some said they waited until the yearlings didn’t have spots.
I think you mean fawns, not yearlings. Fawns lose their spots at about 4 months old. Yearlings are a year old plus, hence the term yearling.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:54 am to Squirrelmeister
I acknowledge that it is wrong, but that is how everyone I've ever met refer to them. They are fawns until they lose their spots, then they become yearlings, the following year they're just does or what ever is on their head.
This thread is the first time it's ever caused confusion.
This thread is the first time it's ever caused confusion.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 7:54 am to Citica8
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but that is how everyone I've ever met refer to them. They are fawns until they lose their spots, then they become yearlings
They are fawns until they are a year old. Then they become yearlings until they are two. This is standard basic deer terminology accepted by biologists. We are allowed to shoot fawns, just not any with their spots still. If you look up the LDWF regulations, under prohibited activities, it has “Take or possession of spotted fawns.”
The reason I brought it up is that it is aggravating how many people get this wrong so I thought I’d learn ya’ll somethin’.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:09 am to Squirrelmeister
It was discussed on pages 2-3, I acknowledge it is wrong, but will continue to be wrong, just like everyone else I know. My response on a previous page used the correct terms, as to be clear.
It's a silly thing to find aggravating. I'm not going to "well actually" every person I have ever hunted around in almost 40 years. We called button bucks "chalupas" at my old camp, makes no sense, but was understood.
It's a silly thing to find aggravating. I'm not going to "well actually" every person I have ever hunted around in almost 40 years. We called button bucks "chalupas" at my old camp, makes no sense, but was understood.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:12 am to Squirrelmeister
When we say does and yearlings, we mean does and fawns. Not correct, but that’s how it is.
A 1.5 year old doe is just a doe, not a yearling.
A 1.5 year old doe is just a doe, not a yearling.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:17 am to Citica8
quote:That’s how I’ve always called it.
that is how everyone I've ever met refer to them. They are fawns until they lose their spots, then they become yearlings, the following year they're just does or what ever is on their head.
Now I learned in this thread the biological way to call them based on age, but I don’t like that as much and will continue to call it how I have.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:33 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
quote:I'm glad that if that was a hill I had to die on, it would be a well populated hill
I don’t like that as much and will continue to call it how I have.
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