Your are correct at least about the political part, that's exactly why PA's AR/HR program was implemented simultaniously. AR was the carrot for HR; there weren't two seperate selling video's done for AR and HR.

Bottom line is here are the current results, of PA's joint AR/HR progam. I guess you must want Virginia to have similar results. Not only is their buck harvest down, but so is the number of general tags sold (which will translate into a future license increase).

Year total buck # of tagsSuccess/general tag
1998 = 181,449 / 1,071,205 ======== 16.9%
1999 = 194,368 / 1,033,315 ======== 18.8%
2000 = 203,221 / 1,038,486 ======== 19.5%
2001 = 203,247 / 1,047,820 ======== 19.3%
2002 = 165,416 / 1,017,154 ======== 16.2%
2003 = 142,270 / 1,018,248 ======== 13.9%
2004 = 124,410 / 1,013,866 ======== 12.2%
2005 = 120,500 / 964,158 ======== 12.4%


I know several successful farmers, but I don't know of any that ever got that way by killing off their prize bulls.