You might just be looking in the wrong place, some places have too many does
I’ve tracked deer from one end of Montgomery Co to the other….from the north side of town up and down the river….numerous spots inside the city limits……Pike Rd……Line Creek…..behind all those cattle farms on 231…….around Sikes and Kohn…….behind the Hyundai plant……Woodley Rd…..Mathews…… up 82…..down to Ramer…….and even further on south into Petrey, Highland Home, Ansley……I can think of 40-50 locations just off the top of my head……What I’m saying is, I’m not just shooting from the hip here with my opinion about the population…….
There’s a big difference in having a lot of does versus having too many……There’s very few areas that have too many. I’ve only seen a handful of places that legitimately need to shoot a bunch of does but there definitely are some. There’s no doubt there’s plenty of deer around where you hunt and its probably one of the areas that’s flirting with that “need to” line……Any one property could choose to do whatever they wanted and its not gonna change that…..shoot does, don’t shoot does…..there’s still a good overall population to make up for what any one person does……
However, when lots of folks from the larger area around you begin ramping up doe harvesting more and more then the scenario has the potential to change……Suddenly one year you blast those does out and replacements don’t just show right back up like they used to……What used to be 20-30 out in the field every evening is now 10-15……Things change over time and according to the data, doe harvesting for Montgomery county has been steadily on the rise……I wouldn’t get too content into thinking things will always be the way they are now in ANY county or area….We majorly changed the rules of the game a few years ago and all the dust kicked up by those changes hasn’t settled just yet. That 25 acres next door that was never hunted in the past may get leased next year.