If you mean judging bucks'ages based on their necks,faces,and backs, you have a pipe dream going. VERY FEW hunters put in the time or effort to learn enough about whitetails to be able to do that with any sort of accuracy. On private land, that works great: cull the older bucks with inferior genetics and occasionally take a real trophy, while letting the younger ones with potential grow. We all know that most hunters are casual "sportsmen" who go out once, MAYBE twice a year with their budies and drink much more than spend time in the woods. At least an antler restriction would cause some sort of easily recognizeable destinction over what can be shot and what can't.

I base my opinions on public land hunting, wheremost people I see in the woods have no idea about true huntingand could careless about any sort of managment.Dream bucks to them will always be dream bucks!

And it's not like this is some radical movement... A/R has worked in NJ for sure, and there are many who feeel it has worked in PA.