ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Bluebird you are indeed delusional. With the exception of a flawed study from Mississippi, the experts position is quite the opposite. Including but not limited to:
Dr Kroll
Dr Samuel
Dr Rosenberry
Dr Alt
Charles Alsheimer
Virtually every officer, biologist and member of QDMA
All of those experts ,except Alt ,prefer a spread restriction to a point restriction. They also support not shooting any 1.5 bucks or culling bucks before they are 2.5 or 3.5. In PA we are reverse culling our bucks in all age classes ,which is the exact opposite of what those experts recommend.
Actually ALL of these experts favor a spread restriction including Gary Alt. Gary Alt characterized the point count as a less preferable but more workable compromise when instituting the, then revolutionary, changes to a state with 900,000 hunters.
Those experts recommend not culling until 4.5 as the ideal solution but they all recognize that ther are very few situations where that ideal startegy can be employed. They have allsaid that any statewide profram is going to be less than ideal. They also all agree that instituting part or thier principles are better than none as we are now doing in PA.