ORIGINAL: Trembow
Here's another thought too: If you're going to let a deer walk to try and let it mature, why not educate it a little bit to increase its chances? Get its attention, make it look up at you and then throw a rock or something near it? Let it know that it is being hunted! Not that I would do that, but if you're so concerned about "letting them grow" why not help them do it?
good idea
i agree with the double edged sword comment. Iowa would be hell for just small-have a good time hunters like me if the state, say, didn't allow shooting yearling bucks. Although I pass small bucks for personal reasons to each his own. Demand would be through the roof (if it already isnt) Enough big ones get through the way it is I think