Yes, alt want's the herd reduced hence the extra 510,000 doe tags that were made available since AR's went into place. I don't know about you but common logic suggests that if there are an extra half million doe tags purchased over the past two years then there should be a reduction in herd size. Now if the main indicator of herd size is harvest records (as stated earlier in this thread) then lets look at it this way. In 2001 203,000 buck were harvested as compared to 165,000 in 2002 which means there is an increase of 38,000 deer that are still alive therefor the antlered deer population INCREASED which is what alt said would happen. Now also in 2001 there was 282,000 doe harvested as apposed to 353,000 in 2002 which by basic math means that there was an extra 62,000 doe harvested which reduces the amount of doe in the woods by that amount. Again, what Alt said he would do. Now by doing some simple adding and subtracting you can figure out that the deer harvest totals have increased (which means reducing herd size) while the ratio of bucks to doe has improved (Which is seen in my previous example). So you can try and turn the numbers any way you want to keep the dillusion alive that Alt is lying but some simple second grade math proves otherwise. Less buck killed = more bucks in the woods. More doe killed = less doe in the woods and as long as the increase in doe kill is greater than the reduction in antlered harvest then the herd will continue to be reduced and the amount of bucks will continue to increase. It's physically impossible to state otherwise unless aliens are taking them for experiments.