I live and hunt wv, we never had a doe season for 17 years, then in 1974 we had a doe season, but it was too late, by 1990 we had 80 deer per square mile, this country has a carrying capacity of 18-26 psm, they've eaten the underbrush down to nothing, they eat your gardens all summer, they eat the danged flowers in the pots on your deck. we now have 5 full weeks to kill does, we are allowed 4 per year, farmers kill them by the thousands in august, and you constantly dodge them in the roads when driving.......oh and the biggest one I ever killed weighed 126 pounds.
if there is food to fatten them in October, they will not starve. a well fed deer population is more than capable of tripleing itself every 2 years, so ya better kill a bunch of does.
RR