Sounds like your beginning to practice deer management for the size of your bucks. My biggest and only buck with a bow is only a 6pt, so I probably would have taken this 8 as well. One point a lot of people make, who are wanting to increase their buck's antler sizes, is not to shoot anything where the antlers are not outside the ears. You hear that a lot on the hunting shows when they are on a ranch. Way to hang in there though.