ORIGINAL: fellas2
I really don't think anybody is disagreeing that the AR has produced some bigger bucks,that only common sense since especially here in 2A and 2B,it halmost has to be a basic 8 point to be legal.Many hunters ,myself included ,are questioning why the pure numbers have dropped so drastically.If 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 year old bucks given a free pass to live on,should they not then be available to harvest as 3 1/2 , 4 1/2, and 5 1/2 year old bucks ?
To answer your question when a deer hits 3.5 years they become really harder to kill. Why because they are alot smarter. Each year a whitetail makes it through a hunting season the harder they get to kill. You may think they are no older deer around but I would bet there is.