Sorry to break your bubble, but you nor the PGC invented hunting for bigger bucks and larger antlers. I had know a lot of those old timer, that ruined hunting as you say, that when they reached their fifties and sixities in age, started shooting only bigger bucks. These weren't just guys that shot bucks every year, some of them shot very few in their liketime, they just enjoyed hunting and didn't care if they got a buck that year. But the big difference between then is now is they didn't complain about hunters shooting smaller bucks, to them it was all about the challenge. Now all the AR guys think they are shooting mature, smart 2 1/2 year old bucks with eight points, but what they are actually shooting is those Y bucks that didn't get any smarter. It used to be that shooting a nice eight point buck was an honor, now you need to shoot a ten to twelve pointer to compare to those eight pointers from years before AR.

Yes, I have set a standard for my property, but AR's has taken away my ability to shoot a wounded undersize antlered buck legally, a wide racked buck with spikes or three or four points, plus some of these odball bucks we are started to have around.

We really had nice racks in our area before AR, but what we disbursed was a lot better than we are getting back. We have a one antlered four point, a one antlered four point with a spike on the other side, a three point to one side and the other antler bent down that you can't tell the number of points. We do have a nice eight with a wide rack, but he only show up on our trail camera between 6 PM and 4 AM, had a nice yearling six pointer, but he was taken out the first day by another neighbor.

I'm not saying AR's is messing up the racks in my area, but no one can prove it isn't either. I'm starting to get a little frustrated by saving button bucks of good quality, then be disbursed in Fall to be shot by everyone,then in return I get these three and four point yearlings. What has happened to our six and seven point yearling, which turn into eight and nine point 18" spreads at 2 1/2 year old? It's because those guys that used to take those two and three pointers, now have to stay in the woods longer and shoot those six and seven pointers.