100%! I’ve seen it. It takes 5-7 years. You don’t start seeing the epigenetic switch flipped and noticeable until the fawns born to healthier mothers begin to develop. You have to start with superb habitat and a new generation of deer in that habitat. One property in particular has mostly produced 8 points at maturity for years until several years of major habitat changes. Now 10+ point 2-3 year olds are pretty common. They’ve very common in the 4+ age class. 8 point yearlings are becoming increasingly more common. But it took years to get there. AL does NOT have a genetics problem anywhere in this state. They have a suppression problem from poor habitat and high grading trigger fingers. After several generations of this deer are not expressing what they’re capable of. That’s why in the 80s and 90s so many bucks were killed well over 200 lbs. They were steadily expanding into unoccupied ranges and flourishing with giant bodies and large antlers because deer had been absent from the landscape for decades. They finally reached a plateau and leveled off, and in a lot of cases, increased to unhealthy levels. After decades of overpopulation and adjusting their genetic cues to the variables they had at hand, they’re not what they once were. But it can be corrected with a lot of work.