Also the amount of BB taken a year has increased but not as great as you make it sound. Look at our highest antlerless harvest before AR, it was 301,379 deer, and last year we took 322,620 antlerless deer.
First of all I did not say that there are not more PS buck than we had with AR. What I said was that if HR progresses there will be fewer buck to be saved by AR and eventually that will result in fewer 8+ pt buck. Prior to Alt being appointed the 10 yr. avg. anterless harvest was 200K resulting in an avg. BB harvest of 44K. Now compare that to 62K BB harvested in 2001, 77K in 2002 and 88K in 2003.
First of all I think that half of those AR legal deer will make it to next year. I say this because of past experience. You are assuming that all the deer are 2.5 and 1.5. I already told you that I have seen a 170+ 14 point and 3 other buck over 130. The 170 alone has to be at least 3.5 and I'm sure one of the others is already 3.5 as well which means that they have already been legal in past seasons and have made it through.
If you have a lot of posted ,unhunted land ,than maybe 50% of those buck will survive. But, once again you disagree with the state stats that show that we harvested 86% of the 2.5+ buck that were carried over from 2002. Furthermore, if your AR legal buck have such a high survival rate ,there was no need for AR in the first place.
You asume that when I say I have SEEN more then it must be written in stone that there ARE more which is your first mistake.
Okay, in the future I won't believe anythng you post and just assume you are intentionally trying to mislead the readers.