That makes sense for my area. Everything with horns around here gets shot at. Especially during shotgun season, and not to mayn does are being harvested. The bucks are still nocturnal here, I have yet to see any antlers in rougly 20 sits. Just does and button bucks. I think i may jsut hang up my buck tag and take out some nannys. What age does a doe mature, from my understanding the yearling does go into heat later than an older doe. Is that right?