You have to shoot does where I live. If you don't there will be a population explosion that will wipe the herd out. It happened several times in my life time. They now issue many many many extra doe tags in our area. It has not phased the population yet. I can take a drive out to my place this time of year when the deer are out on the winter wheat fields and see hundreds of deer in the 18 mile drive. About a 20 to 1 ratio of does to bucks. Most of the does have twins and several mild winters has boomed their numbers I bought 8 doe tags Mule Deer and filled them all. Could have shot 40 more if I had wanted to and had enough tags.