you can try to bury it, and hide it away... but its an issue that doesn't go away just because you wish it would. It was known up front by the deer team that increasing pressure on the antlerless population meant more BB would be harvested along side.

Like you, many chose then to ignore that fact, and just stare longingly at he big rack Gary was waving in the high school gymnasium (ad nauseum btw). And now we merely remind you what was know from the beginning, that the shock and awe would not be there with AR combined with HR. (Pike, we still thank you for that thread).

For dropping our buck harvests 61000 since AR started...all we got were a few holdover buck that might be an 8 point now instead of a 7 point. Maybe a few more tens only in areas of good habitat.

Now there is a stat that many would like to bury. Three straight years of declining harvests. That means this year there will be more competition for the fewer deer in the smaller herd. IMO that means we may see more folks pulling the trigger quicker because they aren't seeing as many deer overall. And when they walk up and see a BB they will have comfort in knowing that 20% of all the hunters who take antlerless take a buck.

You just can't tap dance around that one. Kip Adams tries, Gary tries, John Ozoga tries but it don't go away.