ORIGINAL: bluebird2
If they make it through that hunting season their likelihood of making it the next hunting season is pretty good.
With 18% non-hunting mortality , the vast majority of 1.5 bucks saved by ARs will survive. but that does not negate the fact that 18% won' survive and that 18% is what reduces the sustainable buck harvest,
BTW, statewide breeding rates declined despite of Ars and HR and you haven't provided a single fact to refute that.
We have been over the reason for the statewide decline time and again. The facts are obviously either to complicated for you to grasp or more likely they just don’t fit your twisted and misguided agenda.
Once this law suit is a thing of the past I suspect more of the data showing just how far off base you are can be made available. Since you and the rest of Uninformed Silly People tend to twist things so much the Agency has to be pretty careful about what gets posted until your law suit is resolved. Until that time we will just have to work from published reports available on the web site. But, you even misunderstand and misrepresent them very frequently, just as you are doing right now concerning adult buck non hunting mortality.
R.S. Bodenhorn