Flintlock Doe on the First day

[DaMadman]

I walked into a butcher shop this year and there was a sign asking Maryland hunters to please quit killing the 40-60 pound deer and donating them to hunters for the hungry. I was costing them more to get the deer cut up than what the meat was worth.

Personally I like a nice young deer for the freezer.

My way of hunting is, Brown is down. If it is a deer and comes past me whilst I am hunting I am gunna shoot it.

AFTER and only after I have meat in the freezer do I become selective in what I shoot.

Hope that little one was tender as it looked Petey. Good shot, hitting something that little with a flint lock was probably a challenge (just kidding)

Oh and BTW I would much rather shoot the little deer and let the big doe run away than shoot the big doe and have the little one stick around and not leave. Had that happen once and it won't happen again.

I shot the bigger of the two does and the littler of the two turned out to be a yearling and wouldn't leave and kept bleating at me.. The though of that still gives me shivers a little. I vowed then and ther to shoot the little doe the next time, the big ones have enough sense to run away after the first shot goes off