I am not for AR . You need a good food source and good genes. I think Sportsman need to work on protecting what hunting land is left and not worry about AR. I have hunted for 25 years and have lost alot of land where I can not longer hunt. You are getting alot of NYC, NJ folks moving up buying a house and 150 acres of land for $150,00 - $200,000 and happy as hell that they got a great deal.I am lucky as I own almost of 200 acres of land myself and around another 300 acres of family land ( No AR, and look at the first trail cam picture of the year I posted in the trail cam section). I have pictures from last year of other nice bucks too.There is 165 acres of crops planted, with lots of corn and soybeans for them.Then there are around another 1200 acres of more around of farm land, and all those acres are hunted heavy too. If you areas does not have the good genes and a good food source, you are not going to have big deer.