read the question

same thang, no change

wow, im glad i put in a "I just want to veiw the results of the poll" button, or 9 people wouldve just clicked something random....

That is why I hate polls that you can't view without voting.

BTW I voted improved.

i voted just want to see poll....

reason being....our deer herd has been improving for years. AR's may or may not have aided in the help of antler size. I can remember not seeing deer for multiple hunts a year. Now, its unusual not to see atleast 5.

Just wanted to see the results but I still contend IMO the
AR's are in place more for age structure than anything. The growth of the antlers is just a bi-product.

Antler Schmantler......it's all about antlers.....Out of all the buck mounts on my wall, 1 has been since ARs were implimented. I really can't tell a change in overall antler size myself. We got wide antlered bucks and narrow antlered bucks, same as always, only now, we can't shoot the little antlered bucks.
That's on my lease and my

It's about the health of the deer.... still wondering why the 3.5 yr old I shot last year that weighed in very close to 190lbs only had a 9" spread.

tpwd says its about health and age structure....but cmon, its about antlers.

9" spread? I take it that it wasn't an AR county last year? Congrats on a lot of venison though!

A wide antlered buck is a healthy buck from a healthy herd!

lol, yep curly

i dont like the ones that u can view befor voting because i feel it will skew the way u vote, which is why i voted a "view results" button

wow, 66% say it helped......

lol...actually that county just went AR this season, but the particular property is MLD3 and has been that way for a good while. Place has great brush bucks

well, i think the poll speaks for itself as far as ARs affecting antler size.... now with 73% saying it helped

I hunt in a county that just went AR this year. We are a 2 buck, 2 doe county and I think to improve age structure, all they had to do was change from 2 bucks to just 1 buck!!!

I like the option to just view poll because on many of the polls I don't want to vote because it doesn't apply to me but I am interested in the results. Thanks for that option.

On this one, our county just went under AR for the first time and I have wondered what the effect has been on counties that have been under the restrictions for several years.

This way I get to see "opinions" of the effect.

Thanks for posting the poll.

Same hear seadog, i think ar might work but need a smaller bag limit. The deer have been pretty much wiped out because of the liberal bag limit. Used to see lots of does and small bucks now after 4 yrs we hardly no deer at all, bucks or does! Saw my first buck of rifle season and he had a broken back leg and had to let him walk and suffer or become a outlaw and put him out of his misery and put some venison in the freezer.

Yes and No. Yes, antler size has improved (my vote), but it was also improving before AR, as some others have noted.

Hard to say what effect it's had in my county except the deer numbers are still increasing, and that includes spikes in spite of the additional 'spike' tag (we were a 1 buck county before).

Now they've added another doe tag and extended the season, so maybe we can get the overall population to level off too?

it can ONLY HELP,PASS THE SMALL BUCKS,THEY WILL BE BIGGER NEXT YEAR..........

Not if they kill four instead of one... it can hurt.

Run the poll about the numbers of deer see how that helps?

i hate the AR i killed a 4 pointer last yr beefore AR and aged him at 4.5 and now these bad breeds i cant touch....

I voted just want to see the results since the county our ranch is in just went to AR's... It won't matter on our ranch since it is family only hunting and we are horn hunters anyways. I do like that it went from one buck to two bucks. Last year I passed a huge spike several times because I was hunting a particular buck and I was hoping the my little cousin could shoot the spike... The spike never got shot. This year the spike will take a dirt nap one way or another

I'm hunting my wife's family's place in Ranger. I showed some trail cam pics to her grandad of a deer I'm after this year... Its the biggest deer they've ever seen on the place (over 30 years).

He also says that the bucks have been getting bigger and bigger the past 5 years or so.