hunting is only a competition if you let it get that way. I only compete with myself and the deer. Yes, I want to shoot a mature buck. Notice I didn't say record book. I do that to make it more challenging for myself because I hunt a lot and where I hunt if I would shoot a 1.5 or 2.5 year old buck I would be done in early October. I must admit though, I do wish more people would pass on the yougner bucks and yes it is so that there would be more big ones, but if you don't want to it isn't going to make me mad or anything. I enjoy hunting mature deer because they are smarter and thus harder to get. That is just me though and I don't show anything off, except last year I did to my old man because it was the first time ever that I shot one bigger than him
