I cant see how comparing the archery hunt during the rut with the hunting of pressured rifle season deer as having any merit. Try hunting UNPRESSURED adult bucks, that don't stand up during daylight. You know...the kind that you only ever see at night on the game camera. In PRESSURED gun season, those bucks get killed. UNPRESSURED and they live and live and live some more. The whiner crowd would have probably never shot a buck in their life had it not been for PRESSURE. Why do you think that the biggest bucks of all time were taken during pressured gun season? Even with the rut, top archery bucks are inferior to the top gun bucks.
And if you think those bucks in the photo are "ROID" bucks, well then, you never saw a truly huge buck. Those are nice bucks indeed, but hardly "ROID" caliber.