I hunt for me and I love to bowhunt. It's part of who I am. No one will ever tell me what to shoot and what not to shoot within the law. I'm not sure I practice QDM but I pass a lot of small bucks every year, legal and illegal in our point restrictions. I pass them hoping they will grow and mature. I'm always trying to take a better buck then the one I took last time or beat my best. IT's going to become harder and harder to do so. In fact, the last 3 buck I've taken haven't surpassed my 01 buck but I keep passing them.

The last two buck I took were unique trophies, 3.5 and 2.5 repectively. I doubt they'd been much more as a broken rack/pedicle but I thought he was a spike one side, then the second one was a spike one side.

In a one tag state like PA, you'll never shoot a mature buck if you shoot the first 1.5 that walks by. If your happy with the first 1.5 year old that walks by, by all means, smile when your behind the animal with the bow across it's chest and don't complain when all you ever get is little bucks.

I don't believe the argument that "I'm a meat hunter" because except that one person who wants to be unique and argue that anyone here would shoot a 4 point that stands at 15 yards when a 150 stands at 25 yards or if you watch both walking toward you that you would shoot the little buck, spooking off the large buck. Yeah, yeah some of you will jump on the bandwagon and say you'd shoot the little one, give us an example.

Just be sure to smile regardless, I'll be smiling behind every animal I shoot because when I decide to take the shot, the hunt means something to me and so will the animal. I've gone buckless several years on purpose but when it comes to the last week, I love to fill the freezer with venison bologna and I'll still be smiling behind that MMmmm venison.