Now take that little fact into consideration and rememvber that part of PA's plan to harvest more does before the rut begins to make more sense. Less does available by rut time means a larger percentage gets bred in their first estrous cycle helping to cause less late births.
That is a mighty fine theory , but the PA deer proved it did not apply to PA. Even though the herd has been reduced by over 30% and we have had ARs since 2002, Dr. Rosenberry stated there has been no significant change in the breeding period.
Also, letting some bucks live through the concurrent gun season , provides breeding bucks for this years doe fawns who will attain the body necessary weight and come into estrous in mid December. Prior to AR's a doe coming into estrous after the buck season was hard pressed to find a buck to breed her.
That isn't even close to being true. There were always enough buck carried over to breed the few numbers of fawns that came into estrus after the buck season. ARs protect the highest percentage of buck in areas like 2G and fawn breeding rates are still some of the worst in the state.