ORIGINAL: livbucks
Less deer does in fact equals less deer. You don't have to be Spock to grasp the logical fact. The days of PA being a game farm for malnourished spike bucks is over at last. I'd rather be fortunate to harvest a mature animal once in a decade than to be guaranteed a spike or forkie every time out...But that is just me, I guess.........
That simple fact apparently is not shared by Alt, who said that we would have more and bigger buck than we have ever seen before and that AR would double the number of 8 + pt buck. Furthermore , your claim that PA was a game farm for malnourished spikes is pure hogwash. There is no eveidence that after 4 years of Alt's plan that the percentage of spikes in the 1.5 PS herd has decreased or that the number of 8+ pt. buck has come anywhere close to doubling the number harvested in 2002, before any bucks saved by AR were harvested. The harvest of 2.5+ buck only increased by 9.4K from 2002 to 2003, which is only an increase of 18%..