You would definitely catch the early and peak time breeders sampling right after the season’s end but depending on the situation on your property;, doe numbers, buck numbers, and buck age structure or lack thereof, you might miss sampling a significant amount of later breeding happening in mid-late Feb and beyond. It’ll always be a bell curve. The length of that bell curve is what changes. We were trying, at the time, to capture as much data as possible and that all the does we were shooting had had the full opportunity to conceive. Like I said, this was before the wholesale doe slaughter and we sampled plenty that were bred in early, mid and late Feb, March, and even a few in April. If I had to guess, at the time, 65-80% were bred in that peak window from early to late Jan, depending on the county/property location, but the other 20-35% were bred outside of that very short peak window, before and after, with prob 2-5% being bred early and the majority of the outliers were being bred on the backside of the curve in their second or third cycles, well after peak. The shorter the tail on the curve, the better. There simply were not enough bucks to service all the does in their first cycle. Deer numbers were way higher in those counties at the time. Back when we were doing this, DMAP was the only option if you needed to kill large numbers of does.