Originally Posted by abolt300
The other issue to contemplate is that at least 50% of a yearling buck's genetic makeup, comes from the mother. So with wide open, season long doe killing, you're also wiping out a significant portion of the other side of the gene pool that had previously been somewhat/patially protected and passed on, back in the days before it was legal to kill does all season long. I think that long term, the free for all doe killing will eventually be recognized as very detrimental to both deer genetics and population.



Very true. We won't "prefer" to kill a doe with superior antler genetics to another random doe since we won't know just by looking at the doe. But mass random doe killing would expedite the loss of better antler genetics since lingering quality antler genetics in does would keep getting reduced faster with a young doe population, rather than the average doe living to age 6 or 7 as they would with more protection.