ORIGINAL: uncle matt
I really wouldn't waste any time or effort worrying about it. Antlers taste like cr*p anyway. If your hunting is bringing does past you, the bucks will follow- especially leading into, during and just after the rut.
Is that all that matters to folks? Buck, buck, buck. Sounds like all the magazines and "hunting" shows.
well there are people here that can only shoot 1 or 2 deer a season so i can understand they want the buck , for us in the south where the limits are 10 and higher we take does for the freezer aswell...then again they have either sex weekend here , so you can only shoot a doe on saturday or sunday , unless you have tags then you can harvest them during the week aswell... i guess it keeps the hunter from shooting all the does.
last year harvest records for my state was showing about as much does as bucks taken , orfourse this is a bunch of you know what , as there are enough people that shoot more does then bucks and they cut them up before they get caught. i know it's not the way , but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.