Brian,

Great perspective! I had not thought of it in those terms, but I believe you' re on to something.

As an adjunct to your point, I remember seeing in the Deer 2000 stats...cannot recall exactly where...all of the areas where overwinter goals were lowered at some point in the 1990' s. Suddenly, areas that had not been considered as problems were now considered to be " overpopulated" , simply because the goals had been lowered.

I still have a problem with the way that SAK works. Having a decent statistical background, having buck kill as the main variable used to try and calculate population is going to be subject to a large standard deviation. An error of 20%...or more...would not be surprising. I don' t know what does work better, but the idea of an outside audit of the results can' t hurt.