Do you enjoy watching bucks chase does or fight for breeding rights during the rut? Do you enjoy hearing bucks vocalize? Do you like to grunt or rattle them in while hunting? If so, then balanced buck:doe ratios have many benefits for you. But just as important is the age structure on the buck side of this equation. Balancing these population parameters increases competition for breeding, which improves your opportunity to witness vocalizing and chasing or fighting while afield, and thus increases the likelihood of seeing bucks within range of your deer stand.How do you adjust these parameters? To balance the buck:doe ratio, take equal numbers of does and bucks each season. To increase buck age structure, protect most or all yearling bucks (1½ years old) from harvest where you hunt.#deerscience #deer #whitetails #hunting #deerhunting #nationaldeerassociation | National Deer Association