RE: Do you regret passing on that deer?? I DO
How can you be so sure that it wasn't a very healthy young spike and how can you tell what he'll turn out to be? Spikes can grow up to be monsters as easy as any other deer. I personally have never seen a mature spike buck although I'm sure somewhere at some time there has been one...but they are probably as rare as 200 inch 2-year olds.