DD,
It just hit me what your point is and what your theory is. You think that Alt wanted to drastically reduce the herd. He thought up this grand scheme to use the buck hunters to do it. He would send them out in the woods all gung ho to get a big buck. He would give them concurrent seasons. When they got out there they would either shoot a doe right away or hunt all season, and when they got no buck, they would go out and whack a bunch of does out of frustration. The theory being that he would make bucks scarce and the buck hunters' interest would be transferred to the does and BB, thus increasing the load on does even more the next year. The whole thing spirals out of control until there are no deer left in PA.

Am I on to something?

There is only one problem in this applying to "buck hunters"...

WE don't shoot does and WE won't shoot BB, so it isn't US, the buck hunters , that decimated the herd.

It is the "DEER" hunters, that decimated the herd