We've harvested anywhere from 25+ does per year to 0 does a year on my place over the last 15 years. We haven't seen any difference in the number of bucks we kill per year or size of their antlers. We weren't seeing bucks like we wanted and did the standard state bio thing. Told us to kill 25/year. We took weights, collected jawbones... Sent them away and year after year the recommendations never changed. After 3 years of killing 25 a year not only were we still not killing bucks, but we weren't seeing deer at all. We've slowly decreased our doe harvest to where we now kill 6-8 a year. Only difference we have seen is an increase from about 75lb average weight of a doe in 2000 to about 95 now.

****** has not made one bit of difference in our buck hunting, or the size of our bucks********

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