For me the answer is Yes and there are reasons for that. I may kill a bigger buck, but not a more meaningful buck. Here's why.
- This is the first "mature" buck I have taken with my bow
- This buck had walked away from my stand and came back...due to my calling or tending a doe I can't be certain, but he came back.
- It was taken on the farm that my wife and I got married on just this past spring and I've established a great relationship with the property owner and now manage the hunting program for him.
- My wife participated in the recovery, dragging it out, gutting, skinning and will certainly enjoy the meat.
- My wife was every bit as happy for me as I was for myself.
- Bucks of this size and age are few and far between in my area.
- It'll be the first deer I've had mounted.
It's just an all around very special buck for me and I'll be perfectly content to kill does for the rest of the season if it comes to that.
Can't guarentee how I'll never want to kill a bigger buck, but I can't imagine one being any more special than this one.