The first problem is the more bucks that are sasved by AR,the more bucks will be lost to non-hunting mortality ,which is a waste of the resource and lowers the buck harvest. Lower buck harvests mean lower success rates which means more hunters will quit. When the buck harvest was at 200K /yr. a PA hunter could expect to harvest a buck once every five years. With AR and herd reduction a hunter will only harvest one buck for every ten years of hunting. PA needs every hunter we currently have to control the herd ,but we won't retain the hunters we have and recruit new hunters with a success rate of one buck every 10 years.

AR does not have the same effect on hunters where they are allowed two or 3 buck/yr. like in Miss. ,ARk. and MI, and where they are not trying to cut the herd by 50%. Things are a lot different in PA and AR is doomed to fail when we harvest so many of our buck as BB. What sense does it make to save 38K 1.5 buck when at the same time we increased the BB harvest by 33K?