The problem is that those in favor of AR's seem to be more vocal than the ones who are against it. That is what probably happened in Sterling Forest. You had a bunch of vocal hunters harping on this issue and they suckered the officials there into believing that AR's are a good thing. It will surely drive away some hunters who could care less about antlers and yet I highly doubt it will bring in any new trophy minded hunters either since it IS public land. So the AR minded hunters of Sterling Forest won big here in my opinion. Not only are they restricting everyone else from shooting any buck with 3" or longer antlers, they have also probably kicked off a good many people who now won't care to hunt there anymore. This will simply leave MORE deer for them with less hunting pressure. Yep, sure, the AR, QDM advocates really are more concerned about the deer than they are about antlersl!!