ORIGINAL: npaden
One of the main purposes of QDM is to actually attempt to get deer populations back in balance the way "Mother Nature" had it before traditional deer hunters screwed it up by shooting only bucks and not shooting any does. I guarantee that 200 years ago a wolf pack or mountain lion didn't try to figure out the rack size of a deer before it tried to catch and eat it. They sure didn't care whether it had horns or not. As a result the deer population was relatively balanced with about as many does as there were bucks with an age structure that was pretty similar as well.
UMMM, actually the whole point of QDM is to grow larger antlers. You know it, I know it, the whole world knows it. Don't try to pass off the other baloney. I like QDM, I even implement it on our farms. But, its not to fix mother nature its to grow some big bucks.
According to your analogy we should shoot the first deer that comes along like the wolves and mountain lions woulld. Whether its a yearling doe, button buck, 2 yo buck, old doe it doesn't matter that how Mother nature done it.