Just as you said, what's good for the herd, not necesarrily what the "trophy police' want to dictate. It's way long overdue to bring into check the spiralling out of control concept of what many are 'preaching 'these days. IE, only a certain 'score' is acceptible. I'm superior if I hunt with a bow. No, it must be a recurve! No, muzzle loading is the real way to go! Rifle hunters are not really hunters, and if you shoot a 6 point, you've violated the trophy rule of law! And anyone with the gall to actually shoot a 2 1/2 year old 8 point should be ridiculed and tarred and feathered! Why he had potential! Maybe he already was what would fulfil that hunter! No one seems to be able to settle on what is acceptible, so here's a suggestion. Allow each to be happy with their standards as long as it's legal and ethical! Management for the good of the herd is one thing. Artificially manipulating and farming to control an attempt to produce and 'grow your own trophy' is another! I'm jsust weird enough and stubborn enough to, when I do go out this season, it will be to enjoy myself and to hunt hard and 'old school'. I will scout, learn the terrain, work the wind in my favor,look for srapes and rubs--in the woods, not at the edge of a food plot--do all I can to be stealthful in my coming and goings from the woods, and go to him rather than make him come to me.I will keep it 'tween the lines concerning the rules and laws, and I will not put down another man's choice of a buck he was happy to take.Regardlees of size. It's not how you score 'em ,but how you hunt them!