Treedog, permits are for does only, or as the license says " antleredless" . Button bucks count, guess they realize it' s hard to tell the difference. Anyway it works out nice because I can have the freezer full and a few does out of the way before the opener of bow on 15 Sept. I have my eye on a nice buck and can concentrate on only bucks once the season gets here........if it ever does.