Thread: do you shoot hinds???

Something that always makes me smile is people shooting what they think are poor quality stags and say they have taken it out of the "gene pool". What a hoot - you would need to shoot a zillion to make any difference. And mostly I suspect they are young animals.

Far better to shoot hinds so that there is competition amongst the stags so the biggest, bravest and fittest stags get to serve the hinds while the inferior ones sulk in the corner. I sulked a lot like that when I was a teenager.

I shoot about 50 deer a year. I try to shoot hinds and does if they present themselves but am guilty of shooting stags for meat. I don't (mostly) shoot stags with obvious potential. But I'm an imperfect person, and really do like killing shit so make the odd indiscretion