Here in PA the state is huge and diverse. Our game commission says that if we kill all the does we will have big bucks to replace them.
I can tell you how many you will have if you kill only bucks: 0.
The thing is we have a silly thing called winter here. Right now we have between two & three feet of snow.How many fawns do you think will be born this spring?
If your population is properly managed and at a proper ratio, you will have plenty. With poor population dynamics, your survival rates will decline.
We have battles going on with private land being posted and state land being pounded buy those that have no land of their own.
It is the doe slayers against the rest of us.I see no need to play god and eliminate the whitetail deer from my woods so I don't shoot them.
Shooting does is not done here to eliminate the whitetail deer. Rather, it is done to preserve it.
Predators do not harvest only bucks. In fact, they seldom harvest mature bucks.