I believe that does will adapt to being hunted just like the bucks do. Since bucks are possibly loners they rely on their instincts alone which keeps them lying low. In comparison, does are often with fawns or in related family groups. Alone, the matriarch does may be almost unkillable but their family counterparts may often lead them into dangerous situations whereby they may be killed.

I know that this year the does joined the bucks in hanging in unhuntably thick cover during daylight hours even without the rut factored in.

One thing I have figured out over the years is you can kill many more, and go much longer, without the does going underground when you are killing them strictly with a Bow.

I bet that's true.

When you get a buck during rifle, he is most of the time, either alone or chasing a doe. If he is alone, then you are not educating any other deer. If he is chasing a doe, then you may educate that doe, but probably not. That buck had only been with her for a short period of time and was going to leave at some point in time anyway.