How about switching the rifle and archery seasons around. This would mean that most of the immature deer will be killed off before rut, the mature bucks will breed the does that are left over, then, this whole thing about immature bucks breeding would end. It would also lower the number of does greatly because hunters could hunt food areas instead of hunting areas where scared deer run to.


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What were you thinking BM? Whenever a rifle season happens,at least around here, the only way to hunt will be escape cover. That's a function of hunting pressure not when they're hunted. It also doesn't do anything to correct our out of whack buck/doe ratio. Thank goodnes that wouldn't work, cause as an archer I would personally be real unhappy with that arrangement.