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I hunt farm lands in NE Ohio.

1 1/2 year old yearling bucks are the most naive deer in the woods. They make more mistakes than the other sex or any other age class of deer. Yearling bucks are also very curious by nature.

Sure in most cases you will have a crack at a doe or fawn before a yearling buck. That is because does and fawns out number yearling bucks 5 to 1 or maybe even higher.

So, sure odds are you will see a doe and fawns before a yearling buck but nearly every doe is smarter and better at eluding hunters than a young buck. Does do a fine job of tending to their fawns.

Theoretically speaking say the deer ratio was 1 to 1 to 1. 1 doe and a fawn to 1 yearling buck.

I would be willing to bet the yearling buck would be the first to make a fatal mistake to a hunter.