Just shoot a doe

by Dec 15, 2016Hunting in Maine, Whitetail Deer

Just shoot a doe

There were signs of deer everywhere! Tracks, rubs and fresh scrapes but for some reason, I was not seeing them.  Dad, on the other hand, was seeing deer everywhere he looked. One morning, he watched a spike horn chase a doe and fawn through the woods.  He walked out of the woods behind a doe and fawn another night.  He was seeing multiple does every time he sat or walked through the woods but instead of using that doe tag, he wanted that big, illusive buck that we knew was still hanging around.

I hung out in my stands and watched a lot of squirrels.  How could we be spending so much time in the woods and not come across a deer yet? It helped that Hubs had filled the freezer but we knew that there were deer all around us. Still, being in the woods was fantastic.

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  1. I will only shoot a doe between opening day and closing day. But that's a hard part as I rarely get shots at a doe. The first couple months of our season I will let smaller bucks walk but the second half of the season, I start to worry about having enough meat for the year and take any opportunity that is given to me.

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