You just don't get it, do you ? It is not about whether I get a buck or not. Due to Alt and AR I am no longer a buck hunter, I am simply a deer hunter. If a legal buck comes along I'll shoot it, but I am not going to go out of my way to harvest a buck. Any legal deer worth butchering is good enough for me.

You may consider the harvest of adult buck as rare ,since you can choose to define rare anywhere you want, but it doesn't change the fact that increased anterless harvests decrease the adult buck harvest. You should also note that when that stat was published, 80% of the preseason buck were harvested before the anterless season and there was no late ML/archery season. Now,due to AR, there will be more buck that survive that could be harvested as antlerless deer.

So Alt's plan has produced lower buck harvests because we are harvesting higher percentage of our males as BB , more adult buck are being harvested as anterless deer, fewer BB are being born due to shooting more adult doe and at the same time AR only increased the numberof 8+ pt. buck by 4,000,while reducing the buck harvest by 61,000.