Bucks and does compete for nutrition...does will actual push bucks off a property...too many does means too much competition for nutrition. Bucks will leave seeking what they need to grow antlers and if they don' t get the right nutrition in the important developement stage, their antlers will be sacrificed for the health of their bodies...too many does mean smaller bucks....

AND....if your does are not getting the nutrition they need, smaller births will result, malnutritioned fawns, smaller birth weights, later developement and success rate.

Late births means late developement...too many does to breed, no competition for mature bucks, many does will be bred by young bucks....creating a long breeding cycle and bucks killing themselves to keep up.

There is nothing good about having an overpopulation of does unless you simply want to see volumes of deer, shoot volumes of does and never see anything buck smallish bucks....

Simply put, all major big buck dominating states, counties and leases pracitce sound quality deer management and that means shooting does to equal the buck to doe ratio...it' s simple math.