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If you’re a meat hunter, why not kill a mature doe or two? They taste better and are far more wary than a dumb and immature 1.5 year old buck if you are yearning for the challenge. Let bucks mature. It makes the herd healthier and provides a higher challenge as they age. This whole “You can’t eat the horns.” tripe is ignorant in my opinion. If you are hunting to feed yourself, you went wrong at the start. The money invested initially and each year after to have a chance at killing a deer would buy you plenty of commercially raised venison. More than you’d eat in the same period most likely. Just saying.

I tagged along with my dad since I was four years old back in the seventies then got my license in the eighties. We would see huge herds of deer. Tons!! All does. I remember sitting on a rock outcrop with my uncle when I was 13 years old. We were looking down into this laurel ridden creek bottom. Some other hunters were a ways up the bottom and we knew they’d jump deer. We counted 53 does pass through. Not a buck in them. In fact most of my hunting experiences were very similar. Lots of deer. Few bucks. And a year and a half old basket six was something to take note of!

I’m glad those days are gone.