Personally, I don't hunt for survival, or because my family is going to starve. I hunt for pure enjoyment, and for me that is shooting the deer I want on my terms. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether I think someone else is going to shoot it, it is determined by whether I want to hang my only buck tag of the year on it. I eat tag soup on bucks fairly often for 2 reasons: 1) I can get all the meat I want from does, 2) I enjoy killing big bucks. You can't kill them when the're 4.5 if they died when they were 2.5. Just my opinion everyone is entitled to their own. The argument for "I might as well kill it or someone else will" just sounds to me like when one of my boys wants to play with a toy just so his brother can't... If you want to shoot the deer then shoot the deer, but don't kill it just so someone else doesn't get to. That someone else might just be a 10 year old kids first deer.