There are a lot of reasons, including the above mentioned ones. I tend to think that wingbone' s is why most do it. If your area will support 100 deer, would you rather know that there are only 10 bucks in the area or 40-50?. Also, a higher buck/doe ratio ultimately gives you better bucks to shoot. To maintain a healthy herd, with a chance at taking a mature buck, you probably shouldn' t shoot more than 15-20% of the bucks each year. With 10 bucks, that means only 2 bucks can be taken. With 50 bucks, you can take 10 bucks/year. Which place would you rather hunt on?

To expand on what bigbulls said, you will actually see more rutting activity as a hunter when there are more bucks, because there are less does to go around. Again, which would you chose: having most of the rutting at night, or seeing several bucks chase does during hunting hours?

Lastly, it is closer to nature, and there must be a reason for that. A deer population that is unhunted, I believe will stabalize at around 1 buck for each 1.5 does.

These are some laymans answers, why don' t you ask T R Michaels on the other forum?