If heard reduction & habitat protection is your true goal than any of you that let a young buck walk in order to shoot a booner, then end up with tag soup are hypocrites.
bawana.......this might be me you're describing, this year. I'll pass up a LOT of young bucks.....and I might not shoot a buck....thereby eating the soup.
And yes....I'll shoot every doe that stands broadside and gives me a shot. Our biologist said it wouldn't hurt our herd a bit to take a buck. So....I might. I might not. Why does it matter which one I take?
I think the does deserve the respect the bucks get, too. But the bucks don't spit out little ones. If I had too many bucks....I'd be shooting them.