ORIGINAL: bluebird2
The point is that even though they suffer low non-hunting mortality ,only 20% survive to become 3.5 's ,so very buck ever reach 4.5 year that it takes the average spike to catch up with the avg. 1.5 6 or 8 pt. and that's why ARs result in high grading.
LOL!That statement is one big DILLIGAF. Before AR's even fewer got to that age. How you can translate that into a deterioration of antler size over time is just ridiculous.