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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4196569" data-attributes="member: 5412">At our place, it doesn't matter when or how many we shoot. One of our farms is still enrolled in the DMAP program because the doe population has gone way out of skew. Back 15 or so years ago when the neighbor started the DMAP and enrolled our place the buck to doe ratio was 65-1.Kill em when you see em. 40 does per year with a few mature bucks was the biologist recommendation.All these years later it's down to 42-1. Back in 2020, the last year I participated, I took doe #40 during the last day of Archery season in the early evening. Got it field dressed and proceeded to take it to the barn for check-in where the jaw had to be removed, weighed, and entered into the old style books, then add the DMAP tag and carcass tag. In that 4.5 mile trip, counted almost 80 does out on the wheat and alfalfa fields. They breed like rabbits.Not 30 miles SE a former coworker rarely sees a doe. He's been hunting the same property and sees only bucks. Both mature and immature. The does must be out there to be breeding the young bucks, but he never takes a doe if one is seen.So the gist of my long story is that there is no set rhyme or reason when does should be taken. It depends on the herd in your location.</blockquote>