This is really not a topic worth a whole lot of arguing on a forum with people at all different
stages of hunting, with completely different situations, in different states, with various sizes
and types of property.

Most of us would have no problem with a 12 year old kid taking a 2.5 year old buck or even a
spike as his first deer (I hope). Similarly, if you are hunting a postage stamp in the middle
of outlaw country where every Billy Bob blasts everything in sight, well you might want to
reevaluate your QDM approach.

I try to work at convincing those who hunt in and around the areas I hunt of the benefits of QDM
(or of actually killing does and passing on smaller bucks). Is it selfish (as was alluded to earlier)?
A little, but it fits quite well into the optimistic, the future is bright and bigger bucks or in store meme.