The biggest bucks i have ever seen have been within city limits. Charleston WV has began an urban hunting program to try to thin the herd within city limits.

Hunting is not going to harm the whitetail population.........ever! Poaching won't do much harm either............ The numbers of whitetail are just to high right now for that to happen.

A disease on the otherhand could significantly impact whitetail numbers, to the point where hunting could be suspended and deer becoming engangered.