ORIGINAL: bluebird2
.If 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 year old bucks given a free pass to live on,should they not then be available to harvest as 3 1/2 , 4 1/2, and 5 1/2 year old bucks ?
Remember that ARs shift a lot of the hunting pressure to the 2.5+ buck and as a result ,according to the PGC only 20% of our 2.5+ buck survive hunting season. Also ,a significant percentage of the 2.5+ buck that survive are inferior buck that weren't AR legal and may be harvested as scrub racked 3.5 buck and the hunter never realizes he shot a 3.5 buck.
Now that is about as silly as you've ever gotten. Do you expect ANYONE to beleive in a state where we were killing 80% of our 1.5 buck that the 2.5 year old bucks got less pressure or were were less likely to die before AR?
You actually pointed out your own contradiction when you admitted that we now harvest 80% of our 2.5 buck. The very same percentage of 1.5 buck we used to kill.