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“APRs are a trophy buck regulation”
Trophy management protects bucks until their racks reach trophy proportions. APRs cannot protect them that long because once they have 7 points they’re legal. Under APRs virtually all bucks beyond 1.5 years old are fair game and unprotected. This is why under APRs roughly 75 percent of buck harvest is still 2.5 years old or less and very few live past 3.5 years of age. In fact, it is highly unlikely that any yearling buck “saved” by APRs his first year of life will live through another 3 or 4 years of peak rut gun seasons to become a big mature trophy buck. APRs are simply “not” a trophy program.
if this is all true what is APR to accomplish?
or is this first step of the special interest goups to get the gun season moved out of the rut?