You can’t take speculated numbers and apply them to make believe scenarios and come up with what is reality.
I didn't attempt to come up with what really happened and I did not represent it as such. I simply provided an example to demonstrate the effects of reducing the sampling size in the best breeding areas while keeping the sample size in other areas the same. I simply proved that if breeding rates increased or remained stable in most of the WMUs ,then it is mathematically impossible for breeding rates to decrease by 5% due to a shift in sample size. But, if you think my example is flawed, please feel free to provide your own example which will prove that I am wrong.
Yet in another instance you came up with the decline in the adult breeding being the result of a lower percentage of does 2 ½ and older in the population despite the fact there should be no difference in the breeding rates between 1 ½ and older does? All does over one year old are equally breeding mature and capable unless there is an extremely serious habitat problem
If you believe that to be true ,then please provide a rational explanation for the 5% decline in statewide breeding rates, since I proved it was not due to a change in sample size and location. Also, please provide an explanation why herd health is based on the productivity of 2.5+ doe?
And ,most of all please tell us all how we reduced the herd if we didn't kill a lot more adult doe? We sure didn't kill more buck and we didn't kill more fawns than were recruited, so what group of deer did we harvest to reduce the herd?