RE: Help me feel better
Shooting a legal animal is the individual's choice. If a person wishes to take a spike and it is legal then I say let him. If you opt to hold out for a more mature animal that is your right. But don't talk down a person for shooting a lesser animal. True you may not ever take a more mature animal when those all around you are shooting spikes and forkhorns but again, its your choice.
The only objection I have with this is when harvesting an anterless deer. If it is a button buck and the person can see it is one - they should not shoot.