I guess this is kinda what I would like to see. Not that it matters what I want. I wonder how many young bucks get whacked just because, "If I don't shoot it, it'll just run over to the neighbors and he'll shoot it anyhow". I also wonder if it would get easier to pass on the 2 1/2 year-olds if there were more of them. As for myself, right now I normally see 3 to 6 small bucks over the average nine day rifle season. And over the last decade or so it has worked out that every 2 to 4 years I get a chance at a 14" to 16" eight or ten, which I would imagine are 2 1/2 year-olds. I hunt on my own farm here and on some land that some buddies lease about a half mile away. There is quite a bit of pressure around here. But if I were seeing 6 to 10, 1 1/2 yo bucks and 3 to 6, 2 1/2 yo bucks, I think eventually I would start to hold out for even older better bucks and hopefully this would rub off on other hunter as well. In this neck of the woods fully mature bucks are almost nonexistent even on the trail cams. If someone actually shoots a 140 class buck around here its something special and probably a once in a lifetime thing. Like I said before hunting is not all about the horns for me, and I don't know if I'm completely sold on antler restrictions. But there are basically no mature bucks around my area right now, and without actual deer management it seems like a good compromise.