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This topic gets beat up every year, and every year there's little to no evidence of a MATURE 2x2 issue produced. Theres a bunch of dead legal deer like dvolmers, or there's young deer that haven't blossomed yet such as most posted in this thread. Do they exist in nature? Sure. To the numbers people claim? Absolutely not. As I've stated in previous threads, look at the body structure and age more than the antlers. And what most claim as "big" are small bodied, slender faced and 16" wide, with 10" g2's. Hardly a pandemic in the deer woods. Let's remember it takes two to tango. Just because a buck is a big mature clean 2pt DOES NOT mean he breeds clean 2's. The doe puts as much genetic input into her fawn than the buck does.
When I saw this thread pop up, I thought Johnny Rebel would make an appearance and discourse about history. Might have to wait until January, when we get bored and what not. P.S. There are some really wonderful folk on this website. He's one of them. And, CRyder, too.
Ironically the one mature actual 2x2 that dvolmer posted i believe came from either MT or WY which are any buck states