These brightest in biology have been paid by trophy hunters to come to their conclusions, I can assure you! Deer NUMBERS should be managed by a state game agency, and not the number of points on a bucks head. This age structure argument is lame when a 1 1/2 year old buck can breed just the same as a 3 1/2 year old and pass on the same genetic make-up. Your suggestion that a benefit of AR's would lead to less accidents is irresponsible. Hunters should know exactly what they are shooting at at ALL times, not just under AR rules. I am sure I won't change your mind here, nor will you change mine, but I would only wish that you guys would be honest about things and say that your biggest thrill in hunting is killing trophy deer, and cut the lies that a better age structure benefits a herd. It does absolutely NOTHING in respect to improving a herd as a whole or the habitat it lives in.