ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Or, you can look at the ratio of antlerless tags to the number of doe harvested. In 2000 780K tags produced a harvest of 302K antlerless ,but in 2007 869K tags only produced a harvest of 213K doe
so ,if hunting is better than ever ,isn't it obvious that a lot of hunters are passing on doe?.
I am sure there is some truth to what you are saying bluebird, about fellows choosing to pass on the doe. I for one am one of them but, I think it is more likely they are not seeing any doe shoot.