For me it all depends on where I am hunting and what time of the day it is. If I am in an area where getting a doe out is fairly easy I will shoot one towards the end of a morning hunt or early in an evening hunt. I used to think that you would screw up the rest of a hunt by shooting a doe but don't know if that is really true anymore. Just last Saturday I shot a doe that dropped within 15 yards of my tree stand. Since it was early in the evening I just continued to hunt. About 15 minutes before quitting time a 1 1/2 year old buck showed up. He started circling the dead doe, then another 1 1/2 showed up and before it was all over I had 5 bucks around the doe. One was a 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 year old 10 point that would go in the 130's. If I had wanted to shoot this larger buck it would have been easy since he was totally engaged in checking out the doe, spending about 5 minutes within 20 yards of my stand. If you only shoot does before the rut and after the rut it can be difficult to harvest enough of them to meet your QDM goals. Of course I wouldn't shoot a doe that seems to be hot.