ORIGINAL: bluebird2
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?
2.5 yr old buck 4-7 times harder to kill than 1.5., 3.5 and up, it starts going off the charts. older they get harder to kill legally. Isn't rocket science. I'll stick with the theory/fact that more buck allowed to live one season allows more THE CHANCE to survive to the next. Killing them now eliminates that chance.
Problem I see with your arguements, is you keep baiting and switching. You constantly move from numbers to quality. AR is about quality, and the NORTHERN TIER of Pa. has benefited, regardless of what you may think. I'm happy with the results so far in our neck of the woods, as is every single hunter I hang with. Then again, none of us are " if it's brown, it's down ".
Hows the old saying go about arguing with a fool...........??? Someone help me out here.