Your point is pointless. The percentage of 2.5 bucks per the total harvest has nothing to do with my question. The percentage of a certain age class of bucks harvested has nothing to do with the fact that untold numbers of guys saw a doe, shot it and did not come back. Not to mention the untold numbers that saw an AR legal buck, but couldn't ascertain the legality of it in time to make a shot and then maybe saw a doe and shot it.
I have no idea why you would make that statement. If the concurrent season didn't decrease the harvest rate of 2.5+ buck, why would it decrease the harvest rate for 1.5 buck? Prior to AR , the fact that many hunters harvested the first legal buck that walked by, limited the harvest rate of 2.5. The fact that hunters can now harvest either a buck or a doe did not result in a further decrease in the harvest rate for 2.5+ buck, instead with AR and the concurrent the harvest rate for 2.5+ buck increased.
More than AR, combined seasons are your groups nemesis. That is something that should be changed in areas with low density, namely yours.
I don't hunt in an area with low deer density. I hunt 5 C where the herd is at 19 DPSM and the goal is 6 DPSM. Safety zones, posted ground, high hunting pressure , an unlimited food supply and AR limit our success. The concurrent season has not presented the problems I thought it might, but ,at the same time it didn't produce the desired herd reduction that Alt thought it would produce. So, both of us were wrong.!