Once a spike always a spike?
I was talking to a friend the other day about how our seasons were going. He asked what I had been seeing and I mentioned I had seen about 3 spikes. "Why didn't you shoot them"? He asked. I told him that as part of our management program there are regulations on the antler size of bucks that you can take. "Yeah, but once a spike, always a spike," he said. Really? I had never heard of this before. Is there any truth to this saying? What does the presence of spikes on our grounds say about the genetics of our herd?