Barnes, an age restriction would be as useless as the cub bear law was in PA when we still had it, the law said a bear had to be over a year old to be legal. Half the hunters never had an opportunity to see enough bears to make that distinction. Of course when you looked in the mouth and the premolar teeth were emerged you knew it was, but it was too late if it was dead. There are too many people who don't know the difference in age of deer and bear on the hoof. When AR started you would not believe the numbers of deer that did not meet the restrictions that were killed and that is still happening, the difference now is that it isn't a pay the small penalty as a mistake kill and lose the head and take it home. Now, the officers are not under a mandate to accept those deer as mistakes and arrests and seizure are taking place. They never should have had that policy to begin with and I fought against it when it was talked about as a policy for the first few years. The problem with that as the policy was developed by biologists who didn't really think much about all the people who were willing to pay a $25.00 restitution fee and go home with a deer sans the head. If there are going to be restrictions they must be enforced with more than a wink and a nod for the law to be effective. This year the numbers of buck killed that did not meet AR was up substantially according to several WCOs I talked to. However with antler restrictions anyone should be able to count to 3 or 4, even though some don't and it is easier in court to show they should have counted points than to try to prove they should have known the age.