I will answer your question with a question. What if everyone just shot the first deer they could until their tags were filled? Wouldn't that, through the law of averages, lead to a balanced herd?
VERY interesting...............I need to think about that one.
I'd be surprised to find out more bucks are killed each year than does.
Why? I believe that to be true in NC.....or....I think it was before they passed the new law (more liberal doe tags).
If those deer died due to disease then so be it, maybe it happened for a reason? Maybe in it's own way it made the overall herd stronger. Sure the numbers would be low for a while but then they would rebound...they always have. We had deer at the brink of extinction at some areas by the turn of the century but they bounced back...once we as hunters were held in check.
True...but isn't this what we're trying to thwart with REAL deer management?