Here is the link to the antler buck survey of 2001. Rememeber ,this is pre-AR data and you can obtain a lot of information from this report by doing some simple calculations. For example,add the total number of 1.5 and 2.5+ buck and then divide the number of 2.5+ buck by the total and you will see that 22.6% of the buck harvested in 2001 were 2.5+ buck. Do the same for each county and you will see 51% of the buck harvested in Pike Co. and 42% in Elk. Co. were 2.5+ buck.

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/lib/p.../21001-01z.pdf

You can also calculate the percent of 2.5+ buck that will not be AR legal for the entire state( 18%) and for each county.


Also remember that 18% of the buck saved by AR are lost to non-hunting mortality prior to hunting season. Also consider that the 38K buck saved by AR were spread across 40+K SM of land ,so AR increased rhe number of 2.5+ buck ,by less than 1 buck PSM. Would that be enough to improve the breeding ecology of the herd?