killing your does is a terrible Idea! na just kidding. our land owner didn't like us shooting does on our lease, but since we started we have seen nothing but bigger bucks each year.

I'm a land owner and taxidfermist. In the area I live it seems every year we see fewer trophy buck although most are shooting 8 point and better. We just arn't seeing deer. On day when the conditions were right, I did see 16 doe on one food plot, no bucks. I say we need to be killing doe but my hunting partners still wait for old mosey oak to step out. They say its good to have all these does. For they can bring a buck out trailing one. Question. If you went to a bar and it was loaded with women and half of them wanted you, why would you cross the street to go to a nother bar. "This over abundance of does is having just the opposite affect on hunting, its slowing the movement of bucks down.

One way of thinking is that with fewer doe around the big bucks will need to move more to find the girls in heat. Also, with fewer doe in the heard there is less chance that the lesser bucks with bad genes will get to breed. Either way I just really like to eat venison and put my doe in the freezer every year.

Fewer doe also mean more browse for the bucks to eat.  Too many doe and the bucks don't have competition and wont come to the horns.