RE: Harvest Ratios
qmabry - Our harvest ratio is over 4 does per buck on ~3000 A, with about 70 deer harvested and registered per year. (Poaching is a known problem, no way to account for it). I have to disagree with some of what lunchbucket says - do not hestiate to shoot mature does that have fawns or you will never get there; the fawns will fend for themselves and do not need their mother once they are weaned. Fawns without spots can be considered weaned. Keep good statistics on the harvested deer - live and dressed weights, age, etc.
-Daylight observation is not enough to determine doe to buck ratios - mature bucks are nocturnal by nature and may be under-represented in any daylight sampling. Better to invest in remote motion cameras to survey your herd.
-fsh