1. Every day a deer eats about 4 lbs of food (roughage weight). If I kill a doe...that's 4 more potential pounds for bucks.

2. If I kill her today...she will NOT breed, this year.

3. Better to sacrifice the death of a few than to rishk the overall health of the many.

4. less does = more competition for breeding. More competition for breeding = bucks on their feet longer during daylight hours searching for them.

5. Areas with a high density of does do NOT hold many bucks.

6. They taste good.

7. They are plentiful, here.

8. It's rumored that two of them have been molesting children in our neighborhood.

No cons, here.

I will say this.....There is ONE reason not to take a doe, here....and that's if she's in the right place at the wrong time. I'd take a doe VERY early in an evening hunt in a spot I was trying to kill a buck. I'd also take one VERY late, there (on a morning hunt). But if I'm looking for a buck.....she'll get a pass, there. I'd HATE to go stomping through a buck's bedroom looking for a doe I killed. In the above scenarios...for me to kill one....it'll have to be a slam dunk, still. Otherwise....she walks.

Edit: WHile I was typing this.....my driveway sensor went off 5 times (it's also 500' long).

Damn does!