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.
The lot isn't posted and there are other hunters that hunt the area so that has nothing to do with it. Also you are saying that all of these AR legal deer are making it from one season to the next so what is the need for AR. Well, I'll make it real simple. First without AR in place these AR legal deer would have been shot well before they were this size. And also, these deer were carried over from a year when AR was in place which means that most of the male offspring they produced weren't filled with 20 pounds of lead the first 2 hours of opening day by someone who just had to have the 4 inches of antler to add to their pile.
Okay, in the future I won't believe anythng you post and just assume you are intentionally trying to mislead the readers.
You just love turning words around don't you. No wonder you'll never be for AR because you read what someone posted which to most people makes perfect sense and then turn them around to further help your argument regardless of what was posted. I NEVER said don't believe what I posted. I said that I have seen alot of AR legal buck this year. I also said that I have seen more buck than doe this year. What you ASSUMED was that by those two sentences that there MUST be less doe than buck. Just further proof that you jump to conclusions as long as they help your argument. This thread is getting rediculuos and turning into a pi$$ing contest. No one is ever going to change their mind so I'm not wasting my time and this will be my last post on the issue. But now I realize that even if the game commission came out and said they counted every deer in the state and had 100% proof that AR was working you would still come up with some way to turn around their findings in your favor. I'll tell you what, this season go out and shoot the first 40 pound button buck you see and I'll send you and extra 10 lbs of meat and the brow tines of the buck I shot last year then you can pretend you shot a spike, would that make you happy?
