re: Old time deer management ideas...why do people love em

Old timers had it beat into their heads that if you kill a doe, you kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. I was a young un, but I remember going years without seeing a deer. For the first few years that we started killing deer on our property, I shied away from killing does. My uncles killed every deer they saw and I figured it would catch up to them one day and the kill rate would decline. On the contrary, they killed more and more every year. At some point around the year 2000, I figured if you can't beat em, join em. At one point, my 2 uncles and a cousin were consistently killing 10-15 deer a year on 80 acres every single year.