Studies have shown that an area with low buck population will try to correct itself....a doe will have either one fawn, a buck...or two, one of each....I have tracked the area I hunt for 15 years in a journal....the year after one with little buck sightings or sign, we have a group of young bucks...so the doe have tried to correct it.....only problem comes when hunters kill those small bucks and not any of the doe....like happened here last year....five small bucks taken...no doe....this year is very low on deer sign and no buck sign what so ever.....Taking the mature animals out is the best for the herd.....as well as some of the young doe....that has shown to help the herd the most....those young bucks that do the late breeding still have genes from the big, mature buck....as well as the doe....so continues the gene pool.....and doe whitetails push out small bucks from her or her offspring....to keep from inbreeding....nature has a funny way of taking care of itself.....makes one wonder why man thinks he can do better....when nature has done it far longer than we have, and better than we ever could......seems to reason why man populated where they did....because the food was plentiful....nature gave a bounty....it was man who took more than the land could sustain....now we think we can manage it and "fix it"....
