I will shoot a doe if I want the venison. (already harvest one this year) For a buck, I want to shoot large bucks, and so for the last 10 years, I have been letting anything under a 6 pointer go by. 2 years ago I started letting small eights go by.

This year we have 5 bucks on my trail cameras that are all around the 125" size or bigger. Not the monsters that some people see, but big enough for me.

The reason I want bigger bucks, is that I noticed that the small racks were sitting in a box in the garage. I want my racks to all be displayed proudly.

The buck below walked by my stand 20 minutes after he walked by my trail camera. He was as close as 7 yards quartering away, totally relaxed. Not sure if I made a mistake letting him go or not, but since I have bigger bucks on camera on my land, I'm holding out for a bigger one.