All I know is the bucks have gotten steadily bigger in the last two years where I've seen them and I have a few wallhangers that I'm drooling over around this year.
Are you really saying that the bucks are getting bigger, or are you simply saying that there are more 2.5 + buck due to AR? Since the herd has not been reduced and the habitat has not changed, there really is no reason why 2.5 bucks would be any bigger than they were before AR.