If they make it through that hunting season their likelihood of making it the next hunting season is pretty good.
If that is true, can you explain why less than 50% of the 1.5 bucks that were carried over in 2006,were harvested as 2.5 buck in 2007? If you want to claim those buck survived to become 3.5 buck why were only 10% of the bucks harvested in 2007 ,3.5 buck?