RE: How many have shot mature bucks they've seen before?
The home range of our whitetails in Nebraska is fairly large, so it doesn't happen often. Luckily we have a ton of mature bucks, largely because of TDM (nothing under 160). It has happened more for me with mule deer more than it has with whitetails. I did kill a buck a couple years ago that I had seen the previous year and passed on.