It depends on hunting pressure and the BD ratio of your present herd whether AR would be good or bad where you are.

Pa has had AR for several years now ( since 2002) and most hunters are happy with the results. In 2005, roughly50% of the bucks harvested were 2.5 years old or older. Of course we were killing almost ALL of our bucks wearing their first rack before AR.

The truth is that AR is not a great QDM strategy unless you are trying to manage a situation where there is way too much pressure on antlered deer and very little control over hunter behavior. In a state like Pa., it's a necessary evil in letting some bucks live to year two. The so-called negative result of high grading of the deer herd by killing only the best young bucks is an arguement that is meaningless in areas or states where so much pressure exists that very few deer would survive to year two without some antler restrictions.