[QUOTE]Originally posted by John Scifres:
[QB] In 2012 the ML season accounted for 9% of the harvest. The late antlerless season took 7% for a combined 16% of the harvest.

In 2011 the ML accounted for 15% of the harvest.

In 2010 13%.

It seems to me that some of the folks who shot does in the ML season are now holding out for the late antlerless season instead.

In other words, much of the harvest of the late antlerless season would have been killed in the ML season anyway. Therefore elimination of that season will only have a partial reduction in the harvest.

I would disagree that many were "holding out", if I remember right the first real snow of the year, at least in my area, in 2012, hit during the new late antlerless season, making the deer that had survived the other seasons much more vulnerable. Thus I believe the vast majority of the deer taken in the late antlerless season in 2012 would have lived another year without that season.