Here in the middle ground between suburban and farmland NJ we have a fair few deer of all shapes and sexes. We also have 57 different Deer management zones, 8 different regulations sets for deer, and at least 4 different seasons where I can kill a deer with my bow. The earliest season/zone started Sept 10th (with earn a buck rules) and the latest goes until Feb 18th. I can kill at least 4 bucks a year if I buy all of the permits and hunt all of the seasons. In my DMZ I can shoot unlimited antlerless deer. I grew up hunting in PA back when you still had to decide whether or not you really wanted to shoot a doe with your bow because your tag on the licenses was buck or doe in archery season so if you shot a doe you couldn't shoot a buck. I have not hunted PA with antler restrictions so can't much compare, but here in NJ there are antler restrictions depending on the zone. I live a mile from the border between restrictions and no restrictions (the side I hunt).
What NJ does with archery seasons and shooting bucks is interesting and a little annoying. Our first season is fall bow. When you buy an archery hunting license you get this set of tags. The season runs until the end of October. Then there is a permit based season from the start of November until the end of December (more or less). You have to buy permit tags on top of your license, doe and buck permits are separate and you have to buy a doe permit to buy a buck permit. Then on Jan 1st the winter bow season starts and runs 4-6 weeks depending on the zone. Each of those three seasons allows for a buck to be shot, but only during that season. So I can't go hunt the prime rut and shoot 3 wall hangers over the course of 3 days. Also, by the time winter season has rolled around, a lot of bucks have dropped antlers so there are more limited chances at shooting bucks then. There is also the 6-day gun season in december that yields another buck tag if you buy a gun hunting license (which is different to a bow hunting license and allows for hunting other animals with guns). That tag is good for that 6-day season only, but a bow is a legal weapon in that season.
All of that adds up to a complicated, but hard to realize, way of allowing 4 bucks to be shot in a season here. I'm not opposed to it. We have a ton of deer. It doesn't change the way I hunt or what deer I'm happy to take. Would we have bigger bucks if you shot fewer of them and had AR in place everywhere? Maybe?!? I'm also not driven by finding the biggest buck around and hunting for only him. Sure I want to shoot a big one and earlier in the season I'll hold off shooting bucks that I'm happy to otherwise shoot in the hopes of seeing one of the bigger ones around. But at the end of the day I'm fine with any buck with a basket rack whether that's a 15" spread 4 pt or a 12" spread 8 pt.