Mirage, I'm not sure if you are completely serious about your idea or not but if you are I believe it is people like you that will ruin deer hunting for the majority before its all over. Does it really aggravate you that much that I might shoot a nice mature 7 point on my own property that happens to be miles and miles away from yours.
Your idea sounds equally as ridiculous to me as someone saying "What do yall think about Alabama imposing a spike only rule statewide?" Because, as we all know, once a spike always a spike. (Sarcasm off for those who couldn't catch it)
Oh I'm dead serious about it, I'm not saying 8 point rule is the answer, but I would like to see something done. No, I don't give a sheet if you kill a mature 7 on your place, what does aggravate me is folks that have been hunting for a while that strictly implement the "brown and down" rule, there are thousands and thousands of those out there whather you know it or not. Let me guarantee you that it will not ruin deer hunting with some type of antler restrictions, it has been very succesful in other states.
Please name the states that ARs have been successful in. I've hunted a few states other than AL and I don't recall ever having to check any criteria on a rack before it was legal to shoot, except in MS. I worked in MS at the time as an official scorer, and the places their really big deer are coming from each year has nothing to do with any regulation the state has placed on them. It's from private management practices on the most fertile soil in the USA. There is nothing wrong with ALs current system of allowing two bucks of choice and one with 4 points on one side. There is already an AR in place for the third deer. That's enough.
