Not interested. All the neighbors slaughter everything in the woods come gun season. I am not passing on bucks all year just to let someone else shoot them. The 6 point I saw was the first buck I saw there and I killed it............I saw nothing any bigger, older or better the rest of the year.
No sense waiting on something that isn't there.
Hey Atlas what bred the doe last year that made the buttons and what bred the does that made the yearlings two years ago? Did they all packtheir suitcase and move out the spring andsummer before they hit 2 1/2, never to return again? There is a mature buck in nearly every set of woods. Arguing that point is useless. To take a quote of yours "it's a numbers game".
They are there, always have been there and always will be there.