We really dont know because no one has studied buck mortality in those areas.

It's not that only 8-15% of the does are being harvested. Its that 8-15% of the does that die are killed by hunters. Since the buck and doe kills are running very close, wouldn't it imply that bucks are also being killed by other causes at the relatively the same rate?


BTW, look closer, the study said that hunters are less likely to shoot a COLLAREDdoe. The stuff about hunters beingreluctant to shoot does in the northwoodsis merely deaddeers embellishment of what the study said about COLLARED deer.