i think its great genetics and just young immature age which causes small racks with alot of points...come one there are 1 1/2 year old bucks out there with as many as 8 pts on the norm..my friend killed a 10pt that looked like a 1 1/2 year old deer and they live on the farm and theyve never seen the buck the year before so it was more than likely a yearling last year...to me thats great genes just to young to produce the mass and tine legnth and anything like that to make a nice rack...and somerset co PA and no food doesnt belong in the same sentance! i drove through it going to NC and go skiing there like i will be doing thursday next week and it was nothing but fields! that is deer food! sure alot of the nuts were bad this year but both deer i took from an area that doesnt have a stand of hardwoods within 1/2 mile maybe more were both FAT the doe was a very old one with only a few front bottomw teeth left and i think if i would missed she would died of a heart attack from the noise and the running because he heart head fat all around it and her steaks are fat...them deer were eating great for not having fields or nuts too eat..its called a thicket...i read that unless the grown trees produce nuts deer rarely spend time in that area because its useless..no concelment/shelter and no food...the nut trees fields and the sappling thickets is what they live on...all the parts of the tree the deer eat can be reached in a sappling thicket..but not on grown trees...and PA must have been near treeless abotu 15 yrs ago because everywhere i go i can find nice sapling thickets...we have the food and the genes here in PA....we dont have the age...most deer die before they reach 2!..the ARs wont work to their fullest because small basket racks are still fair game...now if we had a spread requirerment................