Too Many little bucks??

[TheRealSpurhunter]

The more bucks per doe ratio you have, the better.

Within reason. problems can develop if bucks far outnumber does.

While I get your point, I have never seen anything even remotely resembling this hypothetical problem in real-world hunting ground. I have heard of some issues on highly managed properties, but i'm talking about huge properties where management is akin to a fenced property, although no fences. Im willing to bet the OP has a smallish tract of land bordered by other hunting leases/private property that is also hunted.
In these cases, you would be hard pressed to convince me that too many bucks could and would happen without a huge doe-killing for multiple years.

 

[BSK]

TheRealSpurhunter,

Yes, it does take some serious doe-killing over a number of years to see a reverse sex ratio problem. But I've seen it happen to landowners when a neighbor is really pounding away, whether that neighbor is a private landowner or public ground.

And by the way, my local sex ratio has run at 0.6 does per buck for 5 straight years, even though we've killed few does of late. It can happen.

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

From what I know of your properties from comments on here, your not talking about 50 acres plots, there is a big difference in 2,3,5K acres tracts and what a lot of us hunt.

 

[BSK]

From what I know of your properties from comments on here, your not talking about 50 acres plots, there is a big difference in 2,3,5K acres tracts and what a lot of us hunt.

But if your 50-acre plot is next to 1,000 acres that is being hammered, you will see the results they are creating.