Did the number of "8pts" double? Maybe not. But no one can deny that the average age of our bucks is going up and thats what Dr Alt truly promised from AR.
No, Alt said AR would double the number of 8+ pt buck and we would have more and bigger buck than we ever seen before in PA. Both statements are untrue if we reduce the herd by 50%
While the average age of our buck may have increased ,the question is , is that increase sgnificant and the answer is no. Alt claims AR saved 38K buck,and if 80% survived there would be 30 K additional 2.5 bucks. Those 30K buck would be spread out over 41 K SM,so there would be less than 1 additional 2.5 buck PSM. That is a totally insignificant and meaningless change that will have no impact on dominant breeding or the breeding ecology.