I noticed a trend through out this post that fewer 2-1/2 year old + bucks are being harvested. Heres a little food for thought on that subject. Could it be that since only 3pts or 4pts or better whatever your case may be, means that the 1-1/2 year olds are sporting better antlers at younger ages(making what use to bea spike or fork hornin the past ashootable buck by most PA hunters, thus making the 1-1/2 harvest larger than before and the older smarter deer smaller) due to the better genes being passed along buy there fathers who grew to a better age. As a 2-1/2 + old deer he has now lived through and learned a thing or two about hunting season that the 1-1/2 has not. Lets not blame the AR for an ever increasing lazier and passive weekend hunters who if they can't shoot a deer from the window of there vehicle with a super magnum and star gazing scope. Would rather just stop hunting all together and blame it on anyone or anything else, rather than get out in the woods and learn a little more about there quarry.