Thinning out does

[benellivol]

If you had 4 women laying in your bed, would you ever venture out to your front yard?

Above scenario involves having a slow, trickle rut. With a balanced herd you see a more pronounced rut, which increases your odds of killing a mature deer.

The late rut could also bring into play very late bred does, which would equal late born Fawns coming into the next winter.

Not to mention the struggle for resources, with way to many does its hard for your buck herd or deer herd for that matter to get enough high quality forage.

Hope this little quick summary helped you out.

There's always a chance that 5th one may be a little better looking....

 

[Winchester]

if you want to kill mature bucks you have to kill some does

Within reason, it certainly helps. But I tell you what, I've backed off a bit on how far to take adult sex ratios through doe harvests. After watching the results of many different experiments, I'm leaning more towards a compromise between seeing more deer and trying maximize mature buck movement. We can definitely take balancing the sex ratio so far that all hunting results suffer, including mature buck sightings.

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I agree and we do most of our doe thinning late season so the impact is after I'm trying to kill good bucks off these places.