ORIGINAL: Schultzy
I can tell you this Nodog that not even close to every doe gets bred each fall. The buck/doe ratio is very out of wack through out most of the USA. Your analogy of not taking doe's is messed up, not magicmans way.
In reality the more bucks that are around the more doe's will get bred!! I seen more doe's this last fall without fawns then I've ever seen before. Thats not good!! Reason being, too many little bucks were shot in place of these doe's. If there was a low deer population, your analogy would then make a little more sense.
If the buck/doe is off that would mean less deer if the problem is breeding, but as you say there's to many so the little bucks being killed isn't effecting the population. You didn't see doe's with fawns so that's proof, OK. Doe's wont get bred if their dead. Not shooting either would support your theory butwe wern't talking about that. Shoot that doe without a fawn and what will that do? I have no idea how many doe's get bred and I do wonder how you know,but I'd say the chances of one getting bred before a hunter shafts or shoots a little buck are pretty good. "The love the night life"
If Germ wants to post the numbers for Pa. again you can see the possible support for what I said. In 3 years the harvest number for that state dropped from 550,000 to 350,000. They started shooting the does and not the bucks.
Here in ohio we protected the doe's in my zone for years to get it where it is. Bucks were never protected except for the amount.