) If a herd has an out of whack buck to doe ratio, then inferior bucks are allowed to breed and even inetrbreed. This causes late born fawns, can lead to low body weights and antler develpoment and piepald and albinoism to increase. All of these things reduce the quality of the herd.
Our B/D ratio was 1;2.1 before Alt was appointed and our late breeding was doe to fawns being bred in their first year.
2) If more bucks are allowed to live longer this increases competition to breed. This leads to BETTER hunting and more daytime rutting activity
That hasn't happened in 5 C where I hunt. There were fewer buck rubs and scrapes than I have seen in the last 20 years and the rut was less intense than normal because there were so fe adult doe to be bred.
3) The practice of quality deer management is NOT just about producing trophy antlers. Yes a by product of it is an older age structure of bucks. But the real definition of quality deer management in "keeping a herd in the numbers that the carrying capacity of the land will allow maximum health to the herd"
The goal for 5 C which includes Notrhampton ,lehigh, Berks and buck Co. is 6 DPSM. At that level deer hunting will cease to exist in 5C because all the deer will be in safety zones and posted ground.