First and foremost it must be mature, on my property I try to make sure it is at least 3-4 years old. If it is for sure a young deer, it walks. I passed on a nice 120 class 8-pointer last season, because I have pictures of it and a spike sparring in a food plot and the spike is bigger,(body wise) the 8 was a young deer for sure and it is nice to look forward to what he looks like this year.