I think most here will agree that the nuetral, non hunting public would be more offended by the massive harvesting of immature deer than the taking of mature adults. Yes, doe seasons take a bit of toll on the young does and button bucks but not nearly as much as you have implied.
The non-hunting public that want the herd controled doesn't care whether we harvest mature deer or fawns since they will never know the age composition of the harvest. they don't care if we harvest cub bears and they don't care if we harvest fawns,unless 60 MInutes does a report.
The ten year avg. BB harvest prior to 2000 was 44K. In 2002 we harvested 77K,which is the main reason our 2003 buck harvest was only 142K.
(and if you really believe our B/D ratio is 1:2 then maybe you should hire Santa Claus to manage our deer) and to manage for an older breeding class of adult males.
You can't provide one bit of data to support your claim that the B/D ratio wasn't 1:2.1 but I can provide the statas from Bret Wallingford for 2001 when we had 244K adult buck and 533 K adult doe ,for a B/D ratio of 1: 2.18. remember ,we harvested 203K buck in 2001 and we only had 1 M OWD. So what do you have to refute that.
What has Alt done to solve the problem of too many der in the last 4 years. Absolutely nothing. Instaed the herd increased and the problem is worse than when Alt took over. your hero is a dud and AR is another dud. No other deer biologists has been able to reduce the buck harvest by 61K while increasing the OW herd by 100k ,in the history of deer management.