APRs always increase the percentage of 2.5+ buck in the harvest ,but due to herd reduction, in many areas both the total number of bucks and the number of 2.5+ buck have decreased significantly. This year I haven't seen a buck in our area of 5C since the second week of Sept. I haven't seen any rutting activity and I haven't seen a fresh rub or scrape the last two weeks. But judging by the size of a few of the old rubs,there is one nice buck in the area,however if no one gets to see him it doesn't do anything to improve the quality of hunting in our area.