I think it is about time. Looking at your numbers alone, harvesting 53% of the yearling 80 pound spikes and forkhorns, make it difficult for many to have even a slight chance to reach matury and potential. Management zones are a must to get this thing started and as quality of the deer improve I see it spreading wider. Look at the CN river valley... along the river bottoms and near towns the deer tend to be smaller, you look into the kingdom or the spine of the Grnmtns and you see deer size grow abit. These guys are a bit more spread out and have access to more security and acorns and other mast crops. I think they need also to look at habitat... Some areas the logging practices have compleately wiped out the oak and beach forest. Our deer need this kind of fuel to handle the harch winters.

There is going to be a loud up roar. Old traditions of any buck is a good buck is hard to over come. I just have to look at what transpired around my boyhood home in PA to say, man it works! We saw more 2 and 3 year old bucks then I ever did this past year. With my wife tipping over a nice 3 year old 10 point. We passed alot of fours and sixes, but man we actually saw almost as many bucks as does. Our deer density here are now where near PA' s but the idea is sound.