First, I would need to see where breeding rates have decreased? Where did this info come from? Why would breeding rates decrease? Obviously, with deer numbers down, fawn counts would drop accordingly, but breeding rates
The data is from the PGC and is available in their Annual Wildlife Reports on the pGC website.
Second, I do not dispute that PA hunters kill 80% of the 1.5 year old crop of bucks......my comment regarding armchair biologists was a reference to you.
You seemed to feel that this was an acceptable practice.
yes ,it is an acceptable practice and it resulted in a harvest of 52k ,2.5+ buck in 2002 ,compared to a harvest of 48K 2.5+ buck in 2007.