I hunt in the same area every year where my father owns some land and we know the local landowners. We hunt as a group an in the last 6 years we have all shifted to holding out for big bucks. We haven't shot that many, actually I am the only one that seems to shoot them.

However I have noticed the buck population diminishing for mature bucks. Where I hunt in Alberta there is an abundance of does. Am I making a mistake by not harvesting more does to encourange the buck population to flourish?