2001 was the one year that the last day of "buck" season became a one day concurrent season followed by the traditional three day doe season. By Gary Alts own admission, it was a big mistake adding 13% more overall in that one day to the buck harvest that year by putting many more hunters into the woods therefore the buck harvest was skewed that season
It doesn't matter if the bucks were killed the first day or the last day, they were still there to be harvested.
If the 2001 buck harvest was skewed as you claim, can you explain how we harvested 165K buck in 2002 ,when approx. half of the 1.5 buck were protected by ARs?