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Old 02-11-2005 | 01:56 PM
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Default RE: Doe shooting in Pa

Since then . the anterless season has been increased by 400%,which increases the efficiency of the anterless tags issued.
True but not anywhere near to the extent you imply. The last year we had a 3 day season (2000) 28% of doe licenses became kills. In 2003 35% of doe tags were filled.

Oh and back in 1997 with a 3 day doe season, according to the numbers, in your last post Pa 32% of doe licenses resulted kill.

Those anterless harvests have reduced our OW herd to below the 777K OWD we had in 1997 ,when 677 K anterless tags produced an anterless harvest of 220K
So the rate of doe killed has not changed nearly as much as you would have us beleive even with a 400% increase in the number of days that doe can be hunted

At a 35% kill rate 300k less licenses should mean somewhere around 105k less doe killed.
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