This is what you said in your original post on this thread ,without providing any quotes from the article to support you claim that Dr. Kroll debunked the Miss. study.
The Article does mention that a spread restriction is a bit more effective than a point count but other than that, it shows how AR combined with proper doe management helps increase breeding age, herd health etc etc (all the thing Gary Alt said would happen). The article is way to long for me to type in here, and, as I said, it doesnt seem to be on the web yet.
All the things Dr. Alt said would happen didn't happen. The breeding window did not decrease , the breeding rate decreased instead of increasing, productivity decreased instead of increasing, so please tell me who is telling the truth,you or me?
BTW, Dr. Demarias did not say all spike bucks were inferior or that spike bucks couldn't develop into mature 8 or 10 pts at 4.5 years. What he said was the average 1.5 spike is inferior for the rate of antlered development and therefore,shooting the best bucks in each age class leads to high grading and smaller average rack sizes in the succeeding age class.