Two years ago I shot a big bodied buck in unit 5-C that had shed already. Better a buck than a doe.
Anyway, after a long drag up and across a steep hill, I get it home and had to throw it out. I noticed a small hole through the belly really low, and some jelled blood in the body cavity, but no organs hit. It was really thinned out, but I thought it was from the rut. Looked O.K. when skinned. I cut in to the bone and it was poisoned. Don't know if it was from the hole or hit by a car weeks before or what. Point is, in that area, with traffic, poaching, hunters that are lousy shots, bow season, and everything else that causes bucks to wander off and die in the brush, a few shot for doe is not even relevant. I remember back in the 3 day doe season when a lot of buck were shot some years on the mountain I hunt. It usually was when we had brutally cold weather for a while. We figured the antlers kind of froze off. The biologists said no, but then they also said deer can't see colors.