congrats on the deer. look at it this ways it was a legal deer to take who cares what it was it was legal!!!!! here in Iowa they have a anterless only season in late Jan. its the only time we can use a rifle in the southern counties. we only shoot yearling anterless deer because we don't want to accidentally shoot a shed ed buck. be sides they are allot better eating then an old smelly buck . the reason they have the season is to control the deer population. cant control the population by shooting bucks. any ways two years ago i shot a descent 9 pointer and donated it to the hush program here in Iowa. i prefer to eat the yearling's. the older does and bucks go to the hush program.