Before my time, but i have read the white tail craze started around the 70s. They were just meat, and deer camp experience. Then you had Larry on the cover of whatever magazine it was. Maybe the horn craze has gone up, but numbers have gone down.
What does irk me, is the trophy hunters who think they are more important. They act like you shot their future buck, if you shoot a little one. All the whining about predators, from folks that don't really get out that much or make an effort.
I really hate resticted antlers. I don't need the government telling me how big my buck has to be. Make criminals out of folks who misjudge, or encourage dumping the animal .