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CNC, there are properties in AL that have moderate annual doe harvest and very little buck harvest and the balance of sex and age ratios offers phenomenal hunting opportunities. Get outside your bubble and understand that deer densities are not low everywhere. They’re actually quite high in places. The counties I primarily work have areas with very high densities. Since buck mortality is higher than doe mortality due to the stresses of breeding and fighting, some doe harvest is absolutely necessary to continue to maintain that sex and age structure.

Whether you will ever believe it or not, I’m going to state facts again. You will not recover from the consequences of having a population heavily skewed in favor of does by not killing deer. It don’t work, won’t work, never has and never will work. The population must be brought down to a level where the bucks available can breed the does in a timely window, so they’re not coming into estrous again a month later. It’s a never ending cycle that will not correct itself if bucks are being over harvested. There’s too many stresses on a population like that for it to flourish.