I' d have a hard time passing on him too--especially when you know the neighbors WILL shoot him if given the opportunity. But I would probably pass anyway in hope of that.

I did that a few years ago on a really great potential P&Y buck that lived on my property. I passed him up at 17 yards because the shot angle was wrong. Poachers shot him and lost him. He was found a month later rotting in a nearby stream. [:' (]