cardeer: I beg to differ with you on your statement of nothing special. in regards to that pictured rack. I agree the picture does not do the rack justice. But it did score over 160 BC. . and It matters little where anyone hunts, that is a big buck anywhere the whitetail roams.
My point was and is that while Alt waves a rack like this under the unknowing hunter's nose. he is letting them assume this is the type of rack they can expect to see in just a few years. I say not so. We kill about 85% of our yearling bucks..or we were doing that. Now we let those yearlings grow another year or two. We still are going to kill around 85% of them. They will never get to grow to 5 yrs old not even 4. all Alt has accomplished is the same kill rate on bucks that have small 3 & 4 pt racks.
You are correct he is selling that big buck mentality to the hunters to get number reductions statewide...and sadly sooooo many ill informed are sucking it up.