Wonder if you had shot nothing the last few years, if you'd see bucks with more points? Just a thought. There is definitely no way they'll be larger than a spike if they are dead.

I do see many more spikes in dry years or seasons. And the more mature deer are also worse off antler wise. Then you get to good wet years, they all grow better, but then there is so much forage they are all hard to see.

So many different thought trains. Who knows if any of us are wrong or right.

I do know that after effecting the management program we decided on that we went from a few 10-12 inch 8 points and a bunch of 4-6 point deer, that after 6 years we rarely saw a spike, sans the dry years, and saw a few 3-7 point deer but a bunch of 8-10 point deer, more bucks, larger body size etc..... Largest deer shot first year was 12 inch 8 point. By the 4-7th years we had a number of 17-18 inch deer, a few at about 20 that we could not get shots at, and most were definitely multi point. And go from hunting a long time to see a deer to seeing multiple bucks each time out. Funny the dang results sound just like a few studies.

I"m sure results in other parts of the country could be way different.

Jeff