Non hunting mortality existed before AR's and will exist no matter what.
The more bucks that are carried over the more that will die from non-hunting mortality , thus reducing the harvest.
Now you're trying tohave it both ways. According to hundreds of your past posts, you claim over and over we are way under MSY carrying capacity so for you to now to claim that AR reduces the number of OW doe is simply being hypocritical on your part.
That would only be true if the PGC agreed with me that the herd is below the MSY CC ,but they don't so you are wrong.
High grading? You mean the disproven theory of one rogue biologist in one dubious study in a state very different frrom Pa that no credible wildlife biologist has supported?
The theory of high grading has not been disproven as you claim and you can provide absolutely nothing to show it has been disproven. ARs in PA were established based on computer models from Miss. that were later proven to be flawed.