Bluebird,
I'll ask you this AGAIN:
WHO are you? Who do you represent? and what qualifications do you have to dispute the claims the PGC and hunters are making concerning the benefits of AR's?
What is your background and what makes you any more qualified to judge than me, my experienced hunting friends, taxidermists, RSB, the PGC, or my cat for that matter?

See because here's what cracks me up........my real world boot-leather hunting experience over the last several seasons have SHOWN me with my own 2 eyes, MORE bucks, and yes BIGGER bucks. Myself and several of my friends have all taken our best bucks BY FAR in the last 3-4years and we're seeing some REAL quality bucks consistently each season. Some of these are even being taken in the "Dead Zone" of the dreaded UNit 2G where we have a camp.
But yet you tell us we're idiots and your charts and spreadsheets call us liars.

I have taxidermist friends and visit several others that I know because I have an interest in taxidermy and they ALL say that for sure they are getting in MORE and BIGGER bucks each year.
But yet again your little spreadsheets and numbers arguments call THEM liars as well?
I can give you their phone numbers and you can ask them yourself?

SO Mr. Game Biologist for the state of PA, what makes you more qualified with your number charts, "2.5yr old this High grading that", than me, my friends and people I know who have all seen with our own 2 eyes, MORE and BIGGER bucks?

So how do we know less than YOU do when our eyes, scouting and actual hunting experience tells us otherwise? We're all just nuts right?