As an example of mistakes Alt even cited some big mistakes that had already been made IE: the one year (around 2000/2001) that doe season opened on the last Saturday of the traditional "buck" season and resulted in more than doubling the traditional buck kill on that day.
That was not a mistake and had no effect on the 2002 buck harvest . If ARs hadn't been implemented the 2002 buck harvest would have been over 200K just like in 2000 and 2001.
[QUOTE]Thats how the "more and bigger bucks" was explained in the meetings I attended. No, it hasnt lived up to our highest hopes but I notice that you avoid the fact that that Alt said hundreds of times that this was uncharted territory and that mistakes would undoubtedly be made. Whats not a mistake is that there was never a promise that bucks of the same age class would be bigger after AR and that whole thing is nothing more than a lie and distortion/QUOTE]
That is your very biased opinion based on your selective memory. The written word tells the real story and that is Alt claimed our 2.5+ buck would be bigger due to dominant breeding and an improved breeding ecology.