ORIGINAL: Charlie P
Most of the time in my area if you let em go the end up on the road side dead.
Tell you what you hunt for your reasons and I'll hunt for mine.
I find many people that are in it for the antlers are the one's with the shortcomings.
I usually find just the opposite, you let them go and they usually end up being even bigger the following year.
I also find that the ones who complain about the trophy hunters are the ones that couldn't hunt their way out of their garage, even if the big door was open.[:-]
The usual comments from the people uncapable of killing a mature buck are, " Ya can't eat the horns", "My young small buck is more tender than your big ole buck" (BTW, so are young does) and (my favorite) " I'm getting back to the basics". Well, you never left the basics by continuing to shoot small bucks. Hunting mature bucks will really test your skills.