Another interesting snippet from the "heart of the slaughter".

In our first year of ar we had no "saved" class of buck, since we didnt have ar the year before. Still, we harvested 3956 bucks in Greene county.

The following year, we harvested a rediculous 2200.... And that was with a "saved" bunch of bucks prior!

Needless to say, you know the rest of the story. County data was no longer given from that point on, and for good reason, the average joe could no longer make comparisons due to parts of counties being divided up and lumped together. The comparison, thanks to reduction became a joke, . Assuming Greene is about 1/3 of the land mass of the wmu, that would put our harvest right there at the pitiful 2200 mark now, as well. Couple that with the fact our herd is made up of more buck per doe and that equals much smaller herd when compared to first year of ar with basically 4000 buck harvested. Not only do you have the large obvious numerical difference, which speaks for itself, and points to significant reduction, but when applying to TOTAL herd size you must factor in the better buck doe ratio as well to see the trend as even a much moresmaller herd.