RE: If you just have to shoot a young buck.....
What difference does it make???? It's probably going to be the only buck many of us see in a year. LOL Texas people should be forced to spend aweek in the Adirondacks, or Maine, or Vermonthunting as an educational tool. I swear, at the end of a week you'd say there are no deer here. How can there be, there's no food plot, feeders or senderos baited with food.
When I go to Ohio, the only one of those deer in danger is the one with all the kinky kickers. He's interesting.