Impementing AR was a major mistake because it elevated the status of harvesting a buck and made harvesting a doe the booby prize, which was the exact opposite of what Alt said he wanted to do when this all started
I don't know where it is that you hunt, but I have seen AR work in exactly the manner to which it was designed. Where I rifle hunt in Warren Cty. there are ALOT of people that hunt does and are very happy when they get one. I think that if you walked up to them after the hunt and said: "OH GEE, I SEE YOU SETTLED FOR A BOOBIE PRIZE, A DUMB DOE"
that you would get a surprise. I have seen larger bucks, and fewer does in both of my hunting areas, which are Warren and Allegheny Counties. Is that not EXACTLY the goal of Alt's plan?
In Allegheny, anything that shows itself in daylight hours is dead, no matter what sex...Huge numbers of antlerless hunters here and they don't think of a doe as a BOOBIE prize, trust me!