Those are some pretty extreme assumptions, but it is interesting.


Here is the problem we have in my part of Virginia. When I was growing up I was told that it was not a good idea to shoot a doe (as were most kids). The reasoning was that if you killed a doe, you removed at least two deer from the herd. The doe and her not yet born fawn. We still have "doe days" during gun season in Virginia. You can not kill does the entire gun season. You can only kill does on certain days.

Throwing out all the raw numbers and just looking at percentages.

If each year 50% of the bucks were killed & only 20% of the does were killed, wouldn't over time the percentage of does in the herd have to increase?