ORIGINAL: bluebird2
you see that Geist believes that provided there is proper management of game animals, which includes controls on the number of animals harvested, that trophy hunting as most think, does not ruin the gene pool.
I agree but ARs are not the equivalent of trophy hunting and are not considered to be proper wildlife management by most professional deer managers. The negative effects of ARs will be much worse than the effects of true trophy hunting ,because ARs remove the best buck in each age class while protecting inferior buck. Trophy hunting does not create that problem.
Simply not true. The majority of deer managers support letting deer graduate to the older age classes and most agree that antler restrictions, while not relly trophy management, represent the best compromise when managing large areas like a whole state.
You cant support the claim that most deer managers don't consider AR's a proper management tool.