Hey Cody you did the right thing. Over the past few years I have let my fair share of small bucks go. In our hunting camp no spikes and no froks allowed. What I hate is when you let a small buck go, only to here a few min. later shots from the direction that the buck went. Deer need three things to grown big racks, food, genitics, and time. Most deer have the food and the genitics to grow a nice rack, what they don't have is time. I have been to a few of my friends hunting camps, and seen the walls covered with antlers 99.99% of them being spikes, and buttons. Those are the same people that complain that they have no big deer in the area. Let the small ones go. I bet you that if you shot a 10 point buck every year each one of them would be on display, and you could remember how you shot each one. To me that is the best part of the hunt Shoot a spike and the antlers more often than not end up in the back of your garage or in a box some place. Who knows witch one was shot when.