Virginia’s new earn-a-buck regulation is designed to keep the deer herd in better balance by forcing hunters to kill more does, but what it likely will do is result in ...

Of the 10,071 deer harvested, 2,765 were antlered bucks, 1,072 were button bucks, and 6,234 were does. Top harvest counties were Franklin with 223 deer harvested, Pike with 209, and Macon with 207.