Our group harvested 7 anterless deer and 6 were BB. We hunted archery, early ML, rifle and late ML and only had a chance at one other legal mature doe.
Coming from a guy who has complained ad nauseum about the button buck kill I'm surprised you admitted to the apalling number of bb's you killed. For a guy who claims to care about our herd you sure dont practice whay you preach!
Id call that being a hypocrite!
Oh and as for some evidence that Alts plan is working, some just arrived at my door Monday. Here are some stats from the latest issue of Field and Stream....
Winter 2002 before AR..... 2% of deer captured for the buck study were adult bucks, BB's to adult bucks were 15 to 1 and adult does to adult bucks were 14 to 1
Winter 2004 after just 2 years of AR...... 13% of deer captured were adult bucks, BB's to adult bucks were 2 to 1 and adult does to adult bucks were 2 to 1
and all in spite of Darryl and company in their efforts to exterminate the little bucks!!!!
But, I encourage all of you to read the whole article, not just my little excerpt. It is not my goal to mislead with bits and pieces of the picture. There's already been enough of that here.
Field and Stream, July 2004, page 28
Please read the whole article because our own bean counter will undoubdtedly pick it apart by using "parts" of the information offered.