I grew up with a dad who was born in 1923 and he grew up in South AL. There wasn't a huntable deer population for much of his life and he preached NOT shooting any does and if you killed a doe, you were a very bad person. For MANY years, that was true but what stuck with me about my dad was the fact that he did what was best for the deer herd and he instilled a conservationist mindset in me.

Obviously, that deer mgmt style had to be tweaked when deer numbers soared but the bottom line is to get educated and do what's best for the deer herd.