Most of these programs paint a management scheme with a broad brush.

Speaking of Doe, I wait a bit before I shoot, sometimes the fawns are late. A real downer when you shoot a Doe and she has milk. knowing there is a fawn out there someplace that is bound to starve to death or be eating by predators, isn't a good feeling.

If I see the same Doe two years in a row and she has no fawn, unless she has exceptional potential, I harvest her out. Some are poor mothers, others are barren.

It is sometimes really hard to tell the age of a Deer just by looking, especially after around three years old. All together we had near a hundred hours of classes trying to teach this, along with how to grade Deer. It is way easier if you know your hunting grounds well and have watched that Deer mature and know it's parentage. Experience is the only real teacher, that and counting teeth after they are dead (which can also be a bit iffy on occasion)..