Well it looks like BTB finally realized he has no idea how antlerless tags are allocated and can't answer our questions. Furthermore he was wrong when he claimed the PGC knew how many tags it takes to harvest a deer in each WMU,when in fact . that is only true if the herd is stable. In a decreasing herd it takes more tags to harvest a deer ,but a lot fewer deer need to be harvested to keep the herd stable or reduce it even more.

The data from 2G clearly shows how the tags needed /deer increases as the herd is reduced.

Year antlered harvest antlerless harvest harvest PSM antlerless allocation

2003 10,110 20,370 7.4 52,000 2.55 tags/deer
2004 6,400 13,100 4.7 52,000 3.95 tags/deer
2005 5,000 6,200 2.7 29,000 4.70 tags/deer
2006 7,200 4,600 2.8 19,000 4.10 tags/deer
2007 5,100 6,600 2.8 25,000 3.79 tags/deer
2008 6,800 6,500 3.2 25,000 3.85 tags/deer


The number of tags /deer can also be skewed by issuing excessive number of tags like in 5C.