Well if you take into consideration that some people will kill a small buck over a doe, then that will start the wheels spinning on bad herd ratio. If you only kill 3.5 year old bucks or older, then you are taking out a smaller part of the buck population. There are a far greater number of younger bucks then older bucks, so if we shoot more does and onlyolder bucks, then that will create a larger population of younger bucks which will eventually mean a larger population of older bucks.

But everything i just said is more about trophy deer and not herd ratio....so i guess it doesn't count towards the original question