jim,

In Texas there are many hunters that feel as you seem to that shooting a doe is beneath them and as you so eloquently put it "I have not shoot a doe in 15 yearsas it would be as much an accomplishment to me as poisoning mice."

If every hunter chose to never shoot a doe soon you would end up with some of the same issues that they have in Texas. Over population! Except in the north country over populated deer get to die of starvation during the cold winters. A big winter die offgets the population back to where it should be. Here they just continue to over populate and you end up with almost a sub-species of white tail deer in central Texas where a decent buck field dresses at 100lbs.

To me hunters that refuse to shoot does are responsible for the over population that we currently have. In the North the does that you pass up and feel good about yourself for not killing them like a mouse may end up starving to death from overpopulation during the next hard winter.

That's my 2 cents.