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Old 10-19-2009, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by teedub31
I am pretty sure statistically there are just about as many bucks as does. Not exactly sure of that, but am pretty confident that the ratio is close to 1 to 1 or 1.5 to in the natural order of things (also counting button bucks as bucks).
Not in West Virginia pal. The ratio here is about 10 does to 1 buck. They just recently changed the law on the bucks you could take here to 3 per season. It used to be 5 or 6. Hunters were and still are killing way to many bucks and not enough does.
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