Kind of amazing anything this cute is hunt-able a year from now. Mom must of told him to stay put cause he was in this very spot for over 4 hours today.

Black Bears don't think so.

They have less odor as infants. The mottled appearance is for camoflauge. Staying like that for hours is the only thing gives em a chance. They can’t run strong yet

Can anyone say Venison Veal? ??

This one showed up on my trail cam a couple days ago

Fair game when the spots go away.........there is no better eat'n

Saw this one yesterday while turkey hunting.

Very cute. I haven't seen any fawns yet this year. JF

They are cute. I can’t shoot them anymore. They are good eatin though.

they are easy to kill, I guess why some go after them. I would never not even a doe.

What I hate is seeing them splattered all over the road. That literally breaks my heart.

Perfect Stew Pot size right now.

I'd take one in October but I can't................. My wife would shoot me!

I don't need to shoot them or have a desire to shoot them. I guess I am soft but I kill the big does and bucks. If I had trouble getting deer meat I guess I might. to each his own.

Born yesterday!

Pretty sure there is one about 75-80 yards from our house. We've watched the doe sneaking in and out of a stand of sumac the past few days. Hoping we get to see the little squirt or squirts when she leads it/them out of there!

I'm with you woods walker I hate seeing them hit on the road. Not opposed to guys that kill em and eat them, But I don't, Mature doe and buck yes, but not the little guys with spots.

For one thing I hunt for meat, and those little guys don't have enough on em yet.

The problem with shooting young-of-the-year is that it's hard to tell if they are bucks or does. I prefer not to shoot 'baby bucks.' They could grow into something special.

I had a youngster in my sights last shotgun season but I knew it was a buck from trail cam pix. Unfortunately his mother had already detected me and stayed in the thick stuff. (I had a doe tag and she was my target that morning.)

big old does are tough to bowhunt not so these little ones you guys must be awful hungry. i would never shoot one

I do hate seeing them hit as well on the road it just tears me up.

Now with that said the spotted ones do have a place contrary to what those think or would want to say against the shooting of fawns.

I haven't shot a fawn and spotted fawn in a good many years. But there was a time when I shot them all. The landlord of a property I leased in NJ. said he wanted all the deer shot off the property or they were going to shoot them at night. It was legal.

And to get a buck tag early in earn a buck in NJU. you had to shoot a doe and button buck qualified as does. You had to shoot 1rst before NJ would offer you their early season buck tag. I shot spotted fawns they were fantastic to eat. Not much on them other than couple meals but really good. they had no smell to them either.

We since got away from that practice. I felt nothing was worse than having a shooter buck come in 1rst and not have h a tag to shoot him. Many times that happened.

The life of a young one growing up is not easy in NJ with predators and then cars that hunt them 24 x 7 by 365 and then more in leap year.

Sorry its not about being hungry its about shooting them in NJ before they get hungry is what the farmers say and why they take such a position in wanting every deer off their land.

Never shoot one has to do with pride not game management. I don't want to shoot anymore and its pride that's why I say it this way.

Guys have many reasons why they don't do things and if you think about it as many reasons why guys do.

VARIABLES!

Born to be eaten.

Hard to "pick a spot";)

Our regular season doesn’t start until after the spots are gone. I pass on many but when the time and place is right I have no problems harvesting a young one.

If I lost my job, was dead broke and the cupboard, pantry and freezer was empty, yes. Otherwise, heck no.

The spots are gone by the time our season starts in PA but they are still tagging along with mom. I enjoy watching them and give them a pass. Tags are limited in PA and I prefer to get as much meat as possible out of a tag. I know guys that shoot yearlings and love the meat.

Not worth the 20# (maybe) of meat I get for the cost of my tag and the hours of work involved afterward. I realize hunting isn't an investment, but common sense "should" take over at some point in the decision making process.

The young are fun to mess with too. Sometimes i'll get a pocket full of acorns to drop on squirrels,chipmunks,ect when I'm in a tree stand. Things you do when ya get bored. 3 years ago I had a button buck feeding at the tree i was in. I dropped some acorns on him. It was funny how he reacted. :^D About a week later it took 4 trys to hit a box turtle on his shell. His head went in and stayed in till it got dark.:^) about 3 hours.

I do have to add this every spotted one I shot I was very angry and after the animal fell I gave my middle finger to both the state and the farmer. To bad neither of them saw it they didn't get the point the animal did. The coveted buck tag and farmers drive the killing of spots i early season.

Its just an animal as they look at it that does lots of damages unharvested over the years and if you involve the insurance company's then the crash damages they can do adds to it.

When you arrow upwards of 15 plus animals a season it gets costly as well to you if your shooting not enough meat to just eliminate an animal a potential destruction machine.

Plenty of ways to look at it but 15 pounds of the best tasting meat other than some skankay ol buck or ragged barren doe with no teeth that would possibly not make the winter?

Nothing to ever be proud of taking spots out of the pack. Just necessary at times in overpopulated leases.

I'm waiting for an adult deer, 2.5 yo buck or older, and/or dry doe. The coyotes and cars do a fine job of herd management around here, the herd doesn't need me to cull fawns. I shot a 35# deer once from a long distance thinking it was much bigger and thought 'what a waste of a tag' meat-wise, and it bothered me that it never got a chance to grow up. It gave me a sour feeling. Now if I brought one of those home, I'd immediately be lambasted by my wife anyway, justifiably so.

I have never personally seen this it didn't happen on any leases I ever had been on in NJ but I have had guys tell me. This one farmer that did farm a couple of our leases had been known to do this as follows.

He leases out to clubs as well as to individuals and if they don't harvest enough deer he goes in at night and guns them down to the exceptionable herd he feels and he don't care.

Some of our does in NJ have 3 fawns and it don't matter the farmers look at them as rodents even though they lease to hunters and clubs if they don't shoot the does and fawns then they do under the state permits to do so.

TG he isn't or wasn't allowed to have his ways on any of the property's I leased. Makes me sick to even think about the carnage this does. Its just the way of life is the good the bad and the ugly sometimes. None of this makes any of it right.

VARIABLES IN ALL THAT WE DO AND ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Too cute to hunt???? Honestly, that could have been worded differently. I was thinking it was going to be a rant by a PETA or USHA person that deer are too cute to hunt then show a picture of a new born fawn like we generally hunt those, which OF COARSE WE DON'T!!!. I suppose pretty soon the don't shoot these pretty animals people will start rearing there ugly heads on here. Sorry, hunting is hunting and is part of our soul if we are human beings anyway.

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