chickory

Then you assumed wrong. The point of waving the big rack was to mislead hunters. First with AR there would be less bucks harvested, and those hunters who did not take a buck he would make plenty of doe tags available to, so that he could shoot a doe as a consolation prize thus futhering his goals of reducing the herd.

Some sportsman were concerned about increased pressure on does...but he calmed them down by saying that taking does was good for the herd. It freed up more food for the bucks to get "real Big" (note more waving of the rack here). He told tales of no trees growing for 50 years north of rt80 and said taking does would save the forest and make room for those booner bucks hunters like (quick flash to a slide on the screen with a big rack again).

Why was AR even there....? If hunters wanted a big buck all they had to do was wait and pass on a few small bucks ? heck even right now hunters are saying there are Tons of monsters out there if your willing to 'hunt'. So back then there must have been gobs of the because we all know there are less today as a result of three years of increased doe harvests.

AR was there with the rack waving because it was a big ole' carrot. It was meant to get hunters to aggressively harvest does. Because they were told it would A.) save food to grow big bucks. B.) save the forest C. ) make huters conservation heroes D. ) and create "more and bigger bucks" for wannabe rack hunters.


He forgot to say that it would only create a handfull of slightly bigger bucks. A few more 8's instead of 7's, but he forgot to tell you the herd reductions would send 61000 hunters home without a buck when his plan was in action.

And he forgot to tell you that the 1.3 million dollars he took from Audubon and got PSU to do studies with showed it would not create "more and bigger bucks".

Just a smaller herd.

Which is what Audubon and the companies that funneled thier money thru them wanted...

Young guys would say "man, you got punk'd"