Yea, I completely forgot. I would say yea that's pretty consistent with my understanding of a whitetails breeding ecology. I talked to Randy last summer. We really didn't discuss this topic, however. I was more interested in hearing about the recent GPS study they did that found bucks were taking excursions; and that home range size does not seem to be related to age whatsoever.
The quote I posted from Kip Adams. QDMA, directly refutes your original premise that the presence of older dominant buck suppresses breeding by 1.5 buck and those reduces stress.
One could also make the case that because young buck still compete for the right to breed even in a herd with a balanced age structure, that improving the B/D ratio would increase breeding stress because there would be more buck competing to breed fewer doe.
In any case there is no evidence that breeding stress had a negative effect on the health of our herd, either with the old DMP or the new DMP. Breeding stress simply is a non-issue in a state where we harvest 80% of our legal buck.