RE: Shooting young bucks?
The way I read it is this:
Young bucks do not have enough fat to support them in the breeding season. So when they are active in the breeding season they use energy use to grow there bodies to do all the running around.
This puts stress on all there systems, I do not believe they have "less" gentic boys, but they are breeding with their system that are "Stressed Out" Does that make sense?