ORIGINAL: explorer_Jack

I claimed 10 times less deer from 8 years ago.

RSB claims below.

Buck harvest trends are typically a pretty good indicter of the total deer population. Eight years ago the hunters harvested 194,371 bucks, which still included 80% of the 1 ½ year old bucks. Last year hunters harvests 109,200 bucks while not harvesting about 50% of the 1 ½ year old bucks in the population. He also said that over a million bucks should of been harvested if we had 10 times more deer back then.


Does anyone else see a problem with his claims here? He based everything on bucks harvest. Tags was never given out for multiple bucks asthey was for does.

If the AR is working how can there be under 50% 1.5s left over from not being harvested? Wouldn't you think that the bucks would have better antlersnow at 1.5 age since the AR program? 1.5 bucks would have the minimum points to be harvested from the AR program if it was a success?A better buck breeding would give better geneticsand better antler size? But yet the claim is that 50% of the 1.5s would not be harvested.
Now there is something all wrong with his statement otherthan the few things I pointed out.