I TRY to practice it. It is very hard on our land. I attempt to pass up all smaller bucks.My farm is 365 acres, and it gets gun hunted hard. There are only about 4 to 5 of us that pass the smaller ones up, and the other 5 let the lead fly on them.

I have shot some nice looking 2 1/2 yr. old bucks, and it is always my goal to shoot something bigger than what I have the year before, until I get a fully mature whitetail. So far my largest is a 117inch 9 pointer that I got last year. Not a monster, but I proudly display him on my wall. When there are not many monster mature deer running around, you have to take what you can get. I don't really blame others for not using, as it is there land and there choice.

If I owned my own farm there would be 2 rules:
1) Earn a buck...must shoot 1 doe before you can harvest a buck.
2) NOTHING that is 2 1/2 or younger.

This is of course not possible in large groups with different outlooks as to how they see a deer,