If he were on my property he would get a pass. I would rather take a chance and him making it thru the season then to take him and wonder what he could've been.
A similar thing happened to me last year. I got a great two year old on camera last year that had 12 scoreable points. 10pt mainframe with split g-2's. I probably had close to 40 pics of him. If he would've made it thru a season or two he would've been a giant! My father-in-law hunts the same property and shot him in late Oct. I actually got a pic of him the afternoon he shot him. Gross scored 126" I was sad to see him taken, but It was a trophy to him.
Sometimes you just have to take chances. Some turn out bad and some turn out good.