6pt. yes it is horrible. Why? I have wanted AR. in the worst way since i was 16 years old, and finally at the age of 32 we finally got it. Now I want to do whatever it takes to keep AR. and by only saving an additional 16% of our buck' s, and creating a few more 2.5 year old buck' s AR. is not going to last. See DR. Alt stated we needed AR. to improve the breeding ecology of our herd and many of our hunter' s put a side their want' s for the betterment of the herd. Now what need' s to be done to improve our breeding ecology? No, it' s not done by bringing the buck to doe ratio closer together, especially since we had a 1 : 2.1 buck to doe ratio before the start of the 2002 season, It' s done by creating a 3rd and 4th age class of buck' s, a mature buck can easily breed 6 doe' s in the wild, so having a close buck to doe ratio isnt important. Now by only saving an additional 16% of our buck' s we didnt even create a 2nd age class, and having a few more 2.5 year old buck' s with in a herd does nothing to improve a herd' s breeding ecology, all it does is let a few more buck' s reach the age of 2.5 year' s of age, and with a state that has a million hunter' s an additonal 40,000 2.5 year old buck' s does nothing, because once they reach 2.5 year' s of age they will be toast. In order for AR. to be permitted by hunter' s to continue, they will want to see an improvement in our breeding ecology and for that to happen we will have to save each and every 1.5 year old buck and use spread not # of point' s. Pike