90A Controlled Hunt

[fratri]

This is NOT hunting. Enjoy the girls and babies.

Nothing wrong with shooting does or fawns...Wildlife Management Unit.... all game needs to be managed according to numbers etc....
If you don't like what your buddies in the MNR are doing, go bother them not the tag holders...

[werner.reiche]

This is NOT hunting. Enjoy the girls and babies.

Unbelievable...

You might find more suitable company at http://www.peta.org/

[ysyg]

This type of hunting is accepted and is an effective way of putting meat in the freezer. Ive done it many times and enjoy it to a point. Its all good, planning the push, setting up shooters, planning safe shooting lanes and knowing deer habits. All good until a deer bolts out at full speed at 100 yards,.............. now what????? I don't like my chances of a clean kill, or even hit at this distance. So, i pass on the shot, but many will take the shot, not drop the deer, reload and wait for another without tracking or checking for blood. I know lots of you out there will say you can make that shot. If thats true you are the guys that should hunt this way. Its not for everybody.

[Fox]

This type of hunting is accepted and is an effective way of putting meat in the freezer. Ive done it many times and enjoy it to a point. Its all good, planning the push, setting up shooters, planning safe shooting lanes and knowing deer habits. All good until a deer bolts out at full speed at 100 yards,.............. now what????? I don't like my chances of a clean kill, or even hit at this distance. So, i pass on the shot, but many will take the shot, not drop the deer, reload and wait for another without tracking or checking for blood. I know lots of you out there will say you can make that shot. If thats true you are the guys that should hunt this way. Its not for everybody.

Lots of guys can hit a deer running full speed at 100 yards, lots of guys cannot.

[LowbanksArcher]

Well, everyone knows my take on this. We all have a different opinion on what ethical hunting is. I feel that the amount of respect you have for the animal will dictate how you hunt it. If you respect a whitetail as much as a duck, you'll shoot at it like a duck. I'm not saying that's wrong for you, but to me it is. Props to the OP for sharing his story.

[blasted_saber]

This is NOT hunting. Enjoy the girls and babies.

I had meat from a fawn tonight. You bet I enjoyed it. Was absolutely fantastic.

Funny, when I tried to eat antlers from the buck we got, I chipped a tooth.

[bassboy19]

Man oh man don't listen to the haters. Great story, great numbers and a great time. They all taste the same. Bet any guy whining about shooting fawns won't pass up a nice veal cutlet. Nonsense.

[stilchen67]

Lots of guys can hit a deer running full speed at 100 yards, lots of guys cannot.

If a deer is standing in range and you don't rush the shot the majority of the time, a clean humane kill you have your venison. Shooting at a running deer sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss, may hit him through the lungs or through the ham little blood and a dead deer for the yotes. I am not judging anyone, only saying from a statistics point of view that more deer hit when running will be lost compared to one standing offering a perfect double lung shot.

[cramadog2]

Tuesday, 12 hunters. East wind. Drives west to east.
Drive 1: Heard crashing ahead of me near the start of the drive. Near the end of the drive a single deer flagging busted out to my right and went west. 2 deer went where a blocker had been on Monday. 3 deer came across the field and were missed. A single doe came out last and was knocked down. The drivers to the south came upon a guy in camo. He waved at them and took of on his 4 wheeler.
Drive 2: We were standing on the side of the road chatting and a deer came from the bush behind us, but out in the field, crossed the road and took the field edge. Drivers never had any hunting sightings except for me. I heard something crash out, ran over to see if it took a field to the south, but it didn't. I found a single track going through some ice, east bound. I also saw a doe flagging to the south at the end of the drive and the blocker saw it also.
Buck fawn came to the most southern blocker and he got it. He also had some turkeys go by him. 2 deer got through the blockers. 3 came to a blocker standing by a pond and he gets a milking doe and a 1.5 year old doe. The 3rd deer escapes. That blocker had 3 - $3 Winchester sabots misfire, or he would have had more deer likely. While he was shooting at those 3, 4 deer were in front of the blocker to his south, just inside the bush. They likely winded him, turned north and took the field edge. That guy couldn't shoot and should have hollered to the guy at the pond. The last 2 deer were bucks! So they escaped.
Drive 3: Nothing was seen.
My truck was parked out on a side road and it was dark when we went home. I got dropped off and started driving and I had to jam on my brakes. A doe and 2 fawns came out of a bush on the west side of the road. That night my wife saw 4 deer in a field where we hunt, when she was turning a corner.
4 deer down and 3 tags left.
Wednesday. Started with 12 but ended with 8 hunters at the end of the day.
Drive 1: When we walked in to start the drive we heard a shot. Wasn't any of us and we never came across the guy. We did however hear a boat take off and a guy went by us wearing no orange. Driver put up 2 deer and they went east, but the blockers never saw them come through.
Drive 2: The northern most blocker on the west side of the bush saw a wall hanger buck and a doe sneak out the north end of the bush. Apparently we didn't put the blocker on the north side in the right position. He didn't see it and neither did I, the northern most driver. The two southern most blockers saw a deer ahead of them and it came out to a blocker and he got it. It was a buck fawn. We finished up with the deer and got it loaded on the quad and looked to the north. At the north west corner of that bush a big deer was standing looking at us. We watched it for awhile and it eventually took off and flagged across the field to the west.
Drive 3: We didn't see anything, but I heard something crash in front of me right when I stepped off the road. It was there in the brush listening to me and another guy talk. The southern most blocker saw a small grey coyote go to his south out of range.
Drive 4: Nothing was seen. We were hoping the wall hanger was hanging around the crick he went into.
1 deer down today and 2 tags left.
Thursday. 8 hunters and the 9th came at lunch.
We did 4 drives including 1 that only we hunt and hadn't done yet and nobody saw anything at all.
Friday. 9 hunters. East wind.
Drive 1: Driver sees a deer and goes south. Driver next to me sees one and said it was heading my direction, but I don't see it. Then we hear the blockers open up. 6 deer come across the field. the first 2 deer they aim at go down and we're tagged out by 8:30. They got a milking doe and a buck fawn. While we were walking out to the blockers, I put up the deer the driver beside me likely saw. Saw it briefly as it was heading west and heard it struggle through some fence wire and it heard it crash through some ice. Another driver could have had shooting at 2 deer. So there were 10 deer sighted on that drive. A big black coyote came out first, but well to the north of the blockers.
We got the deer loaded and I had my truck on the side road again. Almost get 2 my truck and a doe and fawn come walking out of a little bush on the west side of the road, into the one we just did. Got into my truck and a deer came out of another little bush to the south that is no hunting and it went into the bush we just did. My kids were standing out for the bus that morning and saw 4 deer come from the bush across the road from us, cross the field and into the bush behind us.
So we had a great hunt. Not often we tag out and there's plenty of seed for next year.

[dutchhunter]

sounds like a great week of deer hunting ,congrats to you and the gang ,enjoy the harvest all winter ,Dutch