Just as an aside, I appreciate the attempt to move it to a new thread.

Inmy region, and even more specifically my WMU has roughly 50% of 1.5 yo bucks with 6-8 points. Here the only way AR would work biologically is via width, which this guy would not have met. The state's central DEC biologist quoted that to me when I was writing my feature article on A/R in NY. The basic 3 per side rule could work in areas that they are being implemented in now for advancing the 80% of the1.5 age class to 2.5 yo. However, that's beyond the scope in my part of the state where it would not work, plus you got the whole ethics and trophy questions that leave much more discussion to be held before making a state-wide decision.

Now- I found the kid's deer...a button buck as I thought it was whenI saw it walking towards his stand as he shot. It's his first deer, so I have no qualms about it being a bb whatsoever. While the meat is no good, it is aconsolation that I found it. I'll take pics for him, and probablytake off the Buttons after moving it from the woodlot. It circled away from us incidentally, not back. I just happened to take a different walk in than normal, and there he was in a drainage ditch of the corn field.