HuntingBry, Great post!! The only things I disagree with is 1st. Like most here, I have studied, attended seminars, courses at PSU. and read every thing I could on the whitetail deer since I was 12.
And 2nd your Pittsburgh Pigeons avitar.Lets Go Flyers!!
Like you I have hunted numerous states over the years and have never witnessed a herd that the inmature bucks did not participate in the rut or witnessed that their breeding behavior was surpressed because of the presence of older age classes of bucks. Pike