Yearling bucks are the stupidest deer in the woods-you want meat and want to control the heard shoot does!! And how many times in this thread does it need to be said-ARs are meant to increase the age class of bucks in the heard..period.
When PA hunters passed on buck and shot more doe the buck harvest decreased by 46% from 2001 to 2007. ARs shift the hunting pressure from the 1.5 buck to the 2.5+ age class so how many 2.5 buck do you think survive to be come 4.5 buck.
ARs are suppose to increase the average age of the buck herd in order to improve the breeding ecology, breeding rates and reduce late breeding. In PA breeding rates decreased by 5% and the breeding window didn't change, so ARs failed to produce the predicted results and we aren't harvesting any more 2.5 buck than we did in the very first year of ARs.