While it is true that hunters that put in more time will have higher success rates ,we always had hunters that only hunted one day and those that hunted many days and hunted harder. But the same hunters that harvested 203K buck in 2000 and 2001 , were in general the same group of hunters that only harvested 142K buck in 2003. And, it wasn't because they didn't hunt hard enough since the harvest rate for 2.5 + buck was 86 % in 2003, whcih was higher than the 80% harvest rate for 1.5 buck before AR. The harvest was lower because there were fewer legal buck available to be harvested.

Prior to AR the buck harvest success rate was 1 in 5 , with AR it decreasd to 1 in 7 hunters .