I myself prefer to shoot fawns, good bad whatever I know our deer herd numbers are down and by killing an adult doe I am killing 3 deer as she will be bred and most likely have twins as where when I kill a doe fawn it may not get bred and may not make it through winter with the coyotes and all. Shoot what makes ya happy and do not worry what everyone else thinks as long as it is legal. shawn

Couldn't said it any better. I'm with Shawn..Tdog

I don't know if this counts but my first trad-kill was a muskrat that was raiding our garden . I shot him with a solid fiberglass recurve 15# @ 28" . I was about 10 years old at the time and that was considered  modern euipment back in the 60"s . I took it around the whole neighborhood and showed him off , couldn't have been prouder than if he was the biggest whitetail , first is always memorable , best of luck , Fred

A very small pig....who cares....you gotta start somewhere.

I too passed up a lot of shots, for good reason's on certain properties, but passed up some I shouldn't have elsewhere...mostly hogs while I was bear hunting, and legal bears while bear hunting....

Then it dawned on me...life if too short not to shoot.  I tried my best to get a bear I was stalking on the ground with my longbow this year in the Cohutta wilderness....and even it he weighted a buck twenty five he'd have been a trophy.  Passed a many like that in years passed....not anymore.

My first was a mature doe (thread around here somewhere) but it took me ages to get the shot.  Good luck with your buddies.

What the heck fun are hunting buddies w/out some ribbing anyway?  :-)

My first deer was this 7 pt less than 10 yds
1st day of bow season and the first time I had ever shot at a deer with a trad bow.
 Kind of got spoiled earily,thought it was easy..Then I missed a doe later in the year closer than the 7 pt..I learned then it wasn't so easy...

 My very first kill was a frog...
Nothing like hunting with trad bows!!!!!

My first traditional bowkill was also my third bowkill. It was the jack donkey in my avatar, and probably weighed about 600lbs.

I'm lucky if I weigh 100lbs in this pic.  6 month old northern wisconsin deer in  waist high snow. First day of winter bow '85

My first longbow kill was a  very high scoring Mule deer buck, it has been all downhill from there, that is what the impression is for most people anyway, little do they know how much fun I have been having the last 27 years.
Just my 0.02.
Regards, Bert