ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Have you no honor at all?
Point out to us just where you got that total nonsense you just posted concerning the 2.5 year old bucksfrom before to after antler restrictions out of those Chronicles.
It is not about having honor, it is simply that we have a difference in opinion and the study supports my opinion, not yours.
Here is the quote from the study.
So what did they find? By the time a white-tailed male reaches 4.5 years of age, there is no difference in
antler measurements regardless of the size of their first set of antlers as a yearling. The study compared
yearlings with ≤3 antler points to those with ≥4 antler points. While all measurements remained smaller
in yearlings with ≤3 antler points at 2.5 and 3.5 years old compared with those with ≥4 antler points, by
the time they reached maturity at 4.5 years old, those differences disappeared. In fact by their third set of
antlers, ≤3 antler point yearlings appeared to be accelerating their antler growth at a faster rate than the ≥4
antler point yearlings.
Before ARs the 1.5 buck that were carried over represented a cross section of the 1.5 buck population. With ARs the vast majority of bucks that are carried over are those bucks that the study shows have a trait for slower antler development. Therefore ,the average 2.5 buck produced by ARs will have a smaller rack than the average buck carried over prior to ARs.
Furthermore, the study did not address the negative effects of harvesting the best buck in each age class. If the best of the 1.5 buck with <3pts. were harvested at 2.5, as they would be in PA and the same thing happened at at 3.5, it is obvious that the results of the study would be quite different and the <3pt. group would have not equaled the <4pt. group.