Missed my first trad deer today. :(

[DRT]

Yep.

Anything that steps inside 15 yards of me is in trouble now... all except the landowners cows.

I guess it depends on your county/lease... but I get use of all 5 tags where I hunt and I have no problem burning all 5 on little does. Right now I am hoping I can at least fill out a tag this year.

Richard, sounds like a pretty good hunt. You saw deer and drew undetected. It will come together.

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When you have to provide meat for three families you make sure you try to get good ones.

Gary

[Hunter Todd]

When you have to provide meat for three families you make sure you try to get good ones.

Gary

They would have to be five pretty BIG deer to feed 3 families! It takes at least 5 deer to feed my ONE family.

[DRT]

I kill a few (30+) pigs a year and make a lot of sausage as well. One family isn't mine. I just help the best I can but my house and my daughter's eat a lot of deer meat.

Gary

[Danielb89]

Just not enough meat on them for me. Hate spending a tag on a young deer.

Gary

I would second this statement. I will shoot a full sized deer every time, but I don't shoot yearlings, at least not this early in the season, because there isn't enough meat there for me.

On the opposite side, they sure are good! You could call them a delicacy.

[JTBean]

Thanks for all the advice and kind words folks! I really really wanted to post up that I'd gotten a deer but feel better that I didn't take a hasty or bad shot and wound her. I'm not reliant on deer meat to survive so not taking her is only a blow to morale instead of appetite.

Richard.

Richard, I think you made the ethical choice. I would hate for your first trad kill to be one you could not find.

[DRT]

I can verify that as fact.

Gary

[Randy Madden]

If you wasn't comfortable with the shot then you made the right choice. It's your call!!

I'll shoot any legal deer that presents a shot. Where I live you don't pass up a shot on any legal deer. I have only seen 4 deer while hunting since October 1st.
What Daniel meant to say was that he doesn't shoot at yearlings because the target is to small!!

[DRT]

Maybe not. Where I hunt I see deer every sit. 8 to 12 usually. But seeing a mature buck or doe isn't always amongst them.

Gary

[Randy Madden]

Gary, I'd love to have those numbers. It would definitely up my odds! Lol

[DRT]

It's nice. It's also exoensive. Now that we've bought a place and need to fix the well, the fence, buy a tractor, etc, I may have to scale back my hunting budget.

Or get a job.[emoji24]

Gary

[Hunter Todd]

It's nice. It's also exoensive. Now that we've bought a place and need to fix the well, the fence, buy a tractor, etc, I may have to scale back my hunting budget.
Or get a job.[emoji24]

Gary

Don't even joke like that!!!