I can only speak of my experiances, in my area. Mature bucks, if they are 'dominant,' have home territory that is often over a mile in diameter (I have proof of this via trail cams, and other local hunters agree). Then, they have a 'core' area in the fall that is rarely bigger than 100 acres, and often much less. 'Core' areas do not overlap. Home territories often overlap. What I am getting at is it is not as simple as each 'dominant' buck dividing up the land as if they were people. Summer ranges and fall/winter ranges are often not the same. If you kill a 'dominant' buck out of his 'core area' then you probably will not have much luck there for 'dominant' bucks for at least a season. If you caught him in his 'home territory' then well, next week another 'dominant' buck might walk by.

I do not think dominant bucks just pick up and move to another area if they sense that their rival that they sometimes scentat one side of the rangeis gone, or nonexistant.

I also agree with the fact that while there are 'dominant' bucks, there is no hiarachy like wolves. The deer population(locally) is too high to allow that when you think about it. Deer are always comming into contact with new deer...