The 5" rule was put in place to keep the all mighty dog hunter from using the "it's brown, it's down" method of hunting. We have a game warden that goes to church/family friend or ours and I asked him about that one time and that was his answer. It makes them think twice before shooting at a running deer or a brown blobunless they know what it is.

There is not as significant of an imbalance of does to bucks in Florida as a whole as there is in Alabama as a whole. There was an article in Woods and Waters or one of these smaller magazines that caters to the SE a while back that showed the numbers and talked about that a little. It was around last year when the Game and Fish guys were voting on the corn stuff and all. Next time I go to the barber shop I'll see if he still has it in his pile of magazines.