You're 100% wrong, and once again it goes back to you cutting down ARs every chance you get, even when they have nothing to do with the conversation at hand. I went to a 2hr Kroll seminar this summer in which he specifically talked about the once a spike always a spike montra. They found that these "inferior" bucks ALWAYS caught up in antler growth by maturity (4.5). As I stated in my first post, the dominant buck was a perfect 8pt at 3.5, and returned as a 7pt at maturity. Even if what you said was true, it would not explain why this buck lost a point at maturity, and peaked at 4.5, when his subordinate counterpart added points from 3-4, and added inches from 4-5. So again I ask, do you have a plausible explanation as to why this happened.