J Pike, what' s so bad about 16% of the bucks living to be 2.5yr olds? Is this so horrible?

NJ, what' s " liberal" or " elitist" about raising the minimum legal buck size from 3" to 3pts? The state has been telling us for years what is legal, and what isn' t. As well as when,where, and how we can hunt. It was sportsmen who set these agencies up, and instituted bag limits and size requirements, I doubt those fellas were liberals. A bit of a stretch you made there.

As for the great AR " experiment" , what' s the difference from what' s been done the last 100 years? Where are all the studies showing how great it is for the herd to shoot 80-90% of the yearling bucks? Where' s the studies showing how beneficial it is to have an unbalanced sex ratio, or 50 deer per square mile? I think the studies Alt is doing are the first ones of their kind in the state. Up until now, kill every buck you can above 3" , and save the does. Until there' s hard data, they' re both " theories" , and I don' t see how one is more likely to be harmful than the other?

I think there' s more important things to worry about than AR' s, perhaps the ones who took the carrot are those AGAINST Ar' s, maybe while they' re fighting tooth and nail for their " right" to shoot a spiker if they so choose, what' s going on behind their back? Will PA wind up with 10 deer per square mile in prime public habitat, like some areas of NJ? I' d be keeping a close eye on the Dr, but certainly not due to saving a few yearling bucks.