I never complain about the number of BB being harvested. I simply point out that because we harvest such a high percentage of our buck as anterless deer, AR is doomed to fail and by implementing AR while trying to reduce the OW herd by 50%, Alt guaranteed AR would fail.
The anterless harvest has included 21-23% BB for the past 40 years and it has had no adverse effct on the health of the herd. The fact that we were able to harvest 6 BB proves that the herd is very healthy and productive in our area.
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
Those stats only apply to the deer that were captured and do not reflect the ratios in the rest of the herd. For ,example, in 2002 we carried over 80K adult buck to 2003. With a 10 :1 ratio we would have had over 800K adult doe , but we actually had less than 500K. The dramatic change in the ratio of BB to adult buck may mean that the number of BB decreased significantly , which would mean this falls buck harvest will be even lower than last year. Therefore, non conclusions can be draw based on the data provided on the captured deer. The only survey that matters is the annual harvest and the buck havest is down is down 30% in just 2 years.