I'd hold out for the next 20 years if I had to. I'm only shooting a buck if it's going on the wall. The years that doesn't happen I'll fill the freezer with does. I've shot enough smaller bucks in my time to satisfy a lifetime. It just wouldn't excite me anymore. Plus just having them cruise by at 15-20 yards and having know clue they are a dead deer walking is satisfying enough. At that point you have successfully (pretty much) hunted that animal.