You don't think you are a buck hunter but you are. You take your racks in the form of premie buttons or empty pedicels. And your argument about no bucks left IS hogwash, whether a buck is taken as an antlerless deer or an antlered is irrelevant. It is still a buck and you guys that complain about not being able to get a buck end up shooting three or four a year in the form of an antlerless. Well there you go, you got your bucks. You don't have an antler fetish, do you? You are just "deer" hunters after all, not "buck" hunters anymore, right?
"It's Gary Alts fault I shot four bucks this year, not mine, I couldn't help myself, honest, he made me do it"
You just don't get it, do you ? It is not about whether I get a buck or not. Due to Alt and AR I am no longer a buck hunter, I am simply a deer hunter. If a legal buck comes along I'll shoot it, but I am not going to go out of my way to harvest a buck. Any legal deer worth butchering is good enough for me.
That is the shortcoming in the plan. Guys that would fill their half dozen bonus tags with BB or empty pedicels today out of spite and selfishness and blame the plan for their loss of opportunities tomorrow. That is the problem today, some can explain and rationalize things on paper, and add facts and figures, but they have no real concept of how things work where the boot meets the mud. They have no realization of the consequences of their selfish acts. All I can say is shoot away, you reap what you sow. We practice the pure form of the plan where we hunt, and all the promised rewards are now being bestowed. We are a happy group.