Triple C, my wife and I own 2 properties. 1 is big woods here where we live and only openings are plots I have created with dozer and 1 about 1 care area I opened on the north side of our largest plot just for edge and to let turn into native grasses and forbs. The other is the place I always called “Home 10” and is approximately 30 acres in size.
At Home 10 we have an honest to goodness doe factory. We don’t see very many bucks at all until the last week of October through the 3rd week of November and then it’s not a lot of bucks...maybe 3 or 4. The land consists of some woods bordered by large cattle and hay pastures. Lots of hunting pressure around that area but still way too many does.
Here on our 90 of big woods we have an over abundance of bucks with 3 this year being at least 4.5 and one being older so far. We have a several does as well and I would say we have a 1:1 ratio. The bucks dominate every feeding area other than our backyard here at our house. So far I haven’t seen a buck here in the yard but regularly see 7-9 does out here. I have a lot of subsistence living type folks all around me and they Along with the coyotes keep the doe population in check. We have not killed a doe on our property here since we bought it back in 2014 but so far the wife and I have killed 11 bucks off the place since 2014 with us taking 4 last year. This year I suspect we may kill up to 3 deer off or here between 3 hunters...I may eat tag soup because I am only looking at 1 deer so far...