Deaddeer:

The AR's are intended to protect bucks and allow them to mature alittle bit more. If the buck harvest in 2004 is less then it was in 2003 or 2000, then that clearly shows that the AR's are working and Alt's plan is doing what it is suppose to.

I dont know why it bothers you that there will be less bucks killed in 2004. The vast majortiy of those bucks are 1 1/2 year old 4-6 pointers, so what difference does that make anyway? I would rather let a 1 1/2 year old 4 pt. buck walk, then shoot him and cut his horns off and through them in a box or hang them on the wall in the garage.

Why do you people enjoy killing 1 1/2 year old bucks?? And if you really are just a "meat hunter" and not a "trophy hunter" then why dont you kill a doe?