I too amone of those hunters who also used to kill the first legal buck that walked by my stand.Several years ago, I noticed that the majority of the people in our hunting group often sneered at their own kills, mentioning that their buck was a "scruff" ora "dink".It was comments like these that made me realize that this was disrespectful to the animal if it wasn't something to be proud of, which is why I began encouraging people to begin passing on small, young bucks. (Oddly enough, one of those people lives in Ohio and has killed three monster bucks in the past four years- one of which was a 29 point and netted 195 inches!) As long as the huntergets a chill up his spine when he shoots it, I could care less about the size of the buck he kills. ButDON'T you dare kill something that you're not gonna be proudof. It'snot right to the animal andit's not fair for the rest of thegroup.
I believe that anybody who gets a real rush out of killing a small buck has every right to kill one, as long as it's legal.