Have faith. While there's no sure way to keep some inferior bucks from breeding, antler size has been proven to be an unreliabe indicator of a bucks genetic potential until the buck reaches 4.5 years of age.

A study of wild free ranging deer By Dr James Kroll aka Dr Deer showed that even spindly spikes candevelop impressive antlers as they age and that the deer with a 10 pont rack as his first headgear is not liklely to be any better than the deer that started as a spikewhen they are bothmature bucks.

That big 4 point you mention may be an exception to the rule,he may be old and on his way downhill, he may evenhave a better rack next year.

No management strategy will make everything better all at once. It's about helping the odds for themajority of deer in the majority of areas.