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Post by lugnutz on Mar 1, 2008 23:31:22 GMT -5
Why is it a sin to shoot a button buck, but ok to shoot a fork or a small six? I don't understand?
Somebody please, lay it out their for me!
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Post by savagehead on Mar 2, 2008 2:15:36 GMT -5
Who says it is a sin?Who makes that distinction?Who thinks they have the right to chastise someone for shooting a button buck,spike,forkhorn or whatever?Who makes the decision to put food on that mans table?I for one,will NEVER criticize a man for shooting whatever he sees fit!
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Post by RoadKill on Mar 2, 2008 6:58:38 GMT -5
Why is it a sin to shoot a button buck, but ok to shoot a fork or a small six? I don't understand? Somebody please, lay it out their for me! Its not a sin. Some people choose not to shoot certain animals for certain reasons. That is certainly their right. Sometimes people aren't secure in their own decisions and try to build confidence by getting other people to adopt the same decisions. My vote is for "respect others, keep legal, make your own choices, use what you harvest" |
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Post by Hood on Mar 2, 2008 7:59:14 GMT -5
No sin at all....
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Post by cambygsp on Mar 2, 2008 8:00:19 GMT -5
I guess I'm a sinner.......... I've shot button bucks in the past and I may shoot another in the future.
We consume what we kill and my decisions are made based on how my season is going.
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Post by Woody Williams on Mar 2, 2008 8:03:52 GMT -5
I don't knowingly shoot a button or a young buck - BUT that is my persona decision.
I would NEVER look down my nose at anyone that does.
Buttons and young bucks are legal deer and it IS deer season.
Too many people wanting to tell others what to hunt, how to hunt, with what to to hunt with and when to hunt.
We need to tell them to buzz off...
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Post by Sasquatch on Mar 2, 2008 8:11:14 GMT -5
It's not a sin, and if it was the last day of a deerless season and I needed the meat, I'd do it on purpose. That said, I'd pass them ordinarily. However, I have done it by accident on two occasions. Perhaps some always have enough light & time to check out how flat the deer's head is or how it's body looks, but sometimes it's fairly dim when I hunt. I shot a button last year. A deer appeared about ten minutes after sundown, and worked it's way toward me through some heavy brush. It stepped in the clear once, and I was already looking through my peep sight. There was no time to look any closer. I thought it was a medium-sized doe, and was genuinely surprised to find a button buck laying there. I shot a button buck on Clifty park that dressed 80 lbs! That's a 100lb fawn! He walked out with a little tiny doe fawn. I thought he was it's mother. It can happen. Don't worry about it!
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Post by duff on Mar 2, 2008 9:25:49 GMT -5
I can not imagine a person who feels so strong about shooting a BB to call it a sin would be happy about a person shooting a spike or young buck period.
Maybe you are refering to shooting a BB and tagging it with an antlerless tag instead of the buck tag???
Me, I have shot my fair share of BB. Never once did I know it was a BB untill I went to gut it. I know there are some far superior hunters who can ID a BB from half mile away but I ain't one of them. Based on Indiana's harvest figures BB only make up 10-12% of the harvest and this has been true for the last 15 or 20 yrs. Not that big of a deal in my opinion. Basically we can't have it both ways. We have a liberal doe harvest, if the state were to make BB count towards the one buck then we would be placed into two situations: 1. Not shooting enough does due to the fact we avoid shooting a BB. or 2. BBs are shot and left in the woods or not checked in.
I think we all can live with <15% BB harvest.
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Post by dbd870 on Mar 2, 2008 9:48:06 GMT -5
Agreed.  |
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Post by drs on Mar 2, 2008 10:24:48 GMT -5
Button Bucks, I've noticed, have a pronounced white ring around their muzzle. While a Doe Fawn's muzzle is less white.
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Post by woodmaster on Mar 2, 2008 12:16:25 GMT -5
I learned a long time ago NEVER bad mouth a mans choice of what he shoots. It's strictly up to him and not a sin.
The 3rd turkey I ever shot was a jake and a friend told me that shooting jakes are like shooting button bucks. Basically he was bad mouthing my decision to kill a jake. I wanted to punch the guy in the nose.
I wont shoot a button buck or young buck. All I'll do with a small rack is cut it off and put it on a shelf in the garage, so I'll eat the meat off an older buck or doe. But thats just me.
The main thing is enjoy the hunting experience.
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Post by Bowbo on Mar 2, 2008 13:48:56 GMT -5
I don't knowingly shoot a button or a young buck - BUT that is my persona decision. I would NEVER look down my nose at anyone that does. Buttons and young bucks are legal deer and it IS deer season. Too many people wanting to tell others what to hunt, how to hunt, with what to to hunt with and when to hunt. We need to tell them to buzz off... I too just choose not to, but I have NO bad feelings of someone taking any game they choose, as long as it's legally!! |
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Post by freedomhunter on Mar 2, 2008 16:00:39 GMT -5
There are a lot of physical differences in male and female yearlings if you take the time to study them enough. But, agreed it is a personal decision. In a management situation, I would rather see a fellow hunter make an honest mistake and kill a button than shoot a small buck every year just to fill up a drawer or shelf full of small antlers.
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Post by Woody Williams on Mar 2, 2008 16:20:46 GMT -5
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Mar 3, 2008 10:32:44 GMT -5
Not a sin. Personal choice.
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Post by RiverJim on Mar 3, 2008 13:46:55 GMT -5
Shoot em ALL! !
Lifetime licence sez I can and move from county to county doing it!
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Post by woodmaster on Mar 3, 2008 14:48:56 GMT -5
Shoot em ALL! ! Lifetime licence sez I can and move from county to county doing it! WOW......wasn't that the same attitude at the turn of the 20th century? |
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Post by hornharvester on Mar 3, 2008 14:59:26 GMT -5
While I don't target button bucks it seems I end up killing one or two every season. Mostly from the park hunts and muzzle loader hunt down south. They all taste the same to me. h.h.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Mar 3, 2008 15:15:44 GMT -5
They sure taste sinful.
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Post by lugnutz on Mar 3, 2008 20:35:39 GMT -5
For some reason, i figured i'd get these kinda responses!
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