Maybe be the case for the "Wild West"....not so for the East. We don't have the natural predators nor the killing Winters. Just automobiles and hunters.
When the Michigan Department of Natural Resources had a Bovine Tuberculous epidemic in the Northern Lower, one could get as many "doe permits" as one wanted. Not so with "buck tags".
Here in Arkansas, standard policy is for "brush guards" on front of pickup trucks and large SUV's, due to large number of car deer crashes. Arkansas allows hunters to take twice as many does than bucks. In my zone, it's 2 to one. Combine that with the "three point" rule, tells me they want to reduce the doe herd, rather than the bucks.