We all have our own sense of what will make us happy from an accomplishment point of view and from the point of view of what it means to our local deer herd.We all do what feels right to us."Personally" I am far more understanding of a young or inexperienced hunter killing a young buck than I am an older and/or experienced hunter.These are my personal beliefs and I wouldn't belittle any one for doing otherwise as long as they are within the law.I may not welcome them to hunt with me or my area's though.
In my home area a 3.5 year old buck or older represents less than 10%of the buck population,most of our area's hold less than 3 bucks per square mile.It could be a whole lot better than that if many our experienced hunters didn't feel the need to shoot two or three 1.5 year old bucks a year.
To me it is all a matter of the amount of experience of the hunter and the make up of the deer herd in their area,passing 10 does to shoot a spike horn kind of stuff makes me just about physically ill!