DeerSlayer, you assume that everyone can judge age with 100% accuracy - I'd hate to lose my license for a year because the 3x3 buck looked 3 1/2 and turned out younger. The only accurate way to judge age as we all know is by their teeth and I've never seen a deer smiling in the woods - nor do they have photo id.

I'm not necessarily for the antler restriction, but not necessarily against it either. As for the gentleman who can "no longer shoot a small buck, [therefore] cannot as effectively provide food for his family" He can still harvest does can he not? Or is his pride so big that he'd rather starve the family?