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Old 12-27-2004 | 06:14 AM
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deaddeer
 
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Default RE: Put Pa buck tag on a lottery

Deaddeer, I do not know where you got that fact from, but according to a biologist I know from the QDMA. He lives in Pa and said before Alt put his plan in the woks. The buck to doe ratio throughout most of Pa was 10:1 and higher.
The buck harvest in 1999 was 197K. If we had 10 times as many doe there would have been 1,970,000 doe and 250,000 buck for a total herd of 2.22 M. But , in 1999 we had less than 1 M deer so how do you explain a 1:10 B/D ratio?
It is impossible to have an B/D ratio of greater then 1:3, if 90% of the adult doe are being bred and there is an anterless season every year.
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