No Steve, because you are quick to point out that it would be unhealthy to target "60% of the 1 1/2 year bucks in NY that are 6 point or better", so I posted a question to you:
I'll try to make this easy for you.
Here are the 3 quotes from posts in this thread where I mentioned 1 1/2 old bucks.
Here in central NY, over 60% of the 1 1/2 bucks are 6 point or better - same age the spike or less then 6 pointsyou guys are determined to save.
Let's target the best of the 1 1/2 old bucks - any way that makes sense to anybody
I know - 1 1/2 old 6 and 8 points - the best of the young ones.
Can you say "high grading"?
Then you support the targeting of the 60% of the 1 1/2 year bucks in NY that are 6 point or better!!
Please explain how this will benefit our herd, which I am sure you have studied to be able to suggest what our restrictions should be.
In not one of them do I say "
it would be unhealthy to target these bucks". (I know where the bold key is as well).
You guys are the ones who wantstatewide points based AR/TM. I challenged you to prove that letting spikes and forks walk while targetting the best 1 1/2 bucks would make the herd
"healthy", or "
healthier" then it is now - especially statewide with the enormous variables in herd numbers and habitat.
Don't see where you have come close to an explanation - just a desire to shoot something with a little bigger set of antlers.
Someone suggested that the hunters wanting to be able to shoot a doe when no permit is available in their unit should simply hunt somewhere else.
Might be good advise for the horn hunters as well - NY Outdoor Newsbi monthly photos clearly show that NY produces a lot of outstanding backs.
Every deer I've shot in the last 6 years in Central NY have been very healthy. If you answer the above question, here is another:
How would your mandatory points based AR have made any of these20 plus deer any healthier?
Steve