I think breeding deer genetically which to my knowledge cannot be released into the wild, only enclosed environments is just completely going too far. Food plots, passing immature deer, I don't really see as tainting the records, but certainly deer farms, deer breeding now is like that of cow breeding, I see it as very unnatural and wrong. But most record books to my knowledge won't include an animal taken at oneof these farms/raches, high fenced etc....are ineligible. So sure more bucks than ever are growing larger. Also B&C whiteail min I believe is somewhere near 180" for a typical, not a common deer even by today's standards! Even places that are managing for monsters etc.....a 150" comes along and he's going down, also the world record has stood for quite a number of years......and he was taken from a non food plot environment, the typical anyway.