In my neck of the woods, we can take 1 buck a year and doe number depends on county (4-5 in my county depending on how you harvest your buck - actually unnecessarily complicated). I try to maximize my doe harvest to manage for trophy bucks and reduce the deer density to keep the herd healthy, especially with the types of diseases that seem to be spreading. We have a healthy large herd which I credit with all our development of high quality habitat (food, water, and cover).
In our area you can take two bucks per hunter, so if you have 5 acres and 10 hunters that’s 20 bucks off a small area..... that’s the problem here too many hunters to the property size.
