You might want to rethink your reluctance to shoot does. I remember when the buck/doe ratio got so out of kilter in Texas that the department of fish and wildlife had to start an aggressive PR campaign to get hunters to shoot does. Department biologists presented their case at the annual meeting of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association hoping to get us to deliver the message to the public. I forget what the ideal number of does per buck is, but hunters refusing to shoot does had the ratio so far off it was starting to affect the quality and general health of the state's deer population. This was a big deal in Texas because there isn't much public land there making deer a cash crop for farmers and ranchers across the state: they sometimes make more money from their deer leases than from their livestock and/or crops. Independent family farms and ranches were/are in danger of going bust without the added income.

From what I remember  the biggest and strongest bucks gather groups of does and fight other lesser bucks off when they try to steal does away. There were so many does per buck that after the biggest and best bucks gathered their "harems" there were still lots of does left which meant that the natural spike bucks and those with other genetic abnormalities and weaknesses were able to reproduce in the same abundance. That was reducing the genetic quality of the state's entire deer population.

As I recall there were mainly two reasons hunters didn't want to take does. When most of the hunting public started hunting it was illegal to shoot does and we got used to that and does were generally smaller than bucks and didn't contribute as much meat. If you could only shoot one or two deer a year you wanted them to be large enough to be worth processing. Anyway, after holding some special doe-only hunts and after a few years of getting the word out things changed and the buck/doe ratio normalized.

In spite of a lack of deer we had a great camp and, everybody went home happy and well fed!

Now that subsistence hunting is mostly a thing of the past, I think that's the sport's main purpose. I also think of hunting as a grounding experience that keeps us in touch with the outdoors and a critical part of our past.