lunchbucket; I had a feeling that' s what someone would recommend:

-keep large food plots
-shoot does if I get a tag
-shoot large bucks only

That' s an interesting point about inviting others with doe tags to depopulate my property. It might work. The tough part would be that when a person has a doe tag in the area it becomes " if it' s brown it' s down" . So it could be a young buck as easily as a doe.

There are 2 others factors that should also be considered:
- I' m really the only hunter for about 1,000 acres when outdoor education centers and cattle farms are taken into consideration. Any pressure and the deer know where they can go to never be shot at.
- There are a few big bucks but they use the 500 or so acres of cattail swamp on the other side of me like master magicians. Something was eating the apple leaves off my tree about 6 1/2' above ground. Strangest thing, it didn' t touch the lower branches, just the upper ones. It' s time to hang out the soap.

Dan O.