ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Once again you are dead wrong!!I provided two separate quotes where Alt predicted hunters would be seeing bigger buck than before ARs. He did not say hunters would see more big buck,he said hunters would see more and bigger buck. The only logical meaning of that statement is that the 2.5+ buck would be bigger than before ARs.
Here is the final nail in your coffin.
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Also, a proposal given preliminary approval in January to allow junior hunters to use their general license tag to take an antlerless deer in any county of the state was rejected.
"Of all the things that could improve our deer breeding ecology and increase the number and size of bucks in the herd, nothing would do it as quickly and dramatically - and be accepted by hunters - as changing our antler restrictions," said Dr. Gary Alt,
Since ARs do not increase the size of 1.5 buck , he was clearly referring to the 2.5+ bucks when he said ARs would increase the number and size of of bucks in the herd.
As I've said before, Alt said some of it wrong. The infamous more and bigger bucks is a clear example of that. We have bigger but not more. Plain and simple.
That being said, your claim that he said that buck antler size would change within a given age group is 100% fantasy on your part. You cant prove it because he did'nt say it so now you've shifted to a strategy of concluding that it just has to be what he meant! Pathetic!