Man, you guys have steered this thread in an opposite direction than what it was intended!

I believe the OP even stated in his first post that he understood and was totally fine with folks with LITTLE to NO hunting experience shooting yearling bucks! Everyone has to start somewhere.... we all know that!

We just remain totally confused as to why you guys that blow about being "good" hunters,with years of experience, would still shoot a young immature buck that in NO WAY could possibly provide you with a challenge??? Isn't it human nature to raise the bar? Isn't part of the attraction of hunting..... the CHALLENGE ???

I mean seriously, how difficult would it be for any able body adult, with even a few years of hunting experience, to shoot small yearling basket racked bucks? Most importantly, WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO???

I have 3 young kids that also love to deer hunt. This season my 9 and 10 year old sons both killed YEARLING bucks, a spike and a 4 pointer. It was an awesome hunt, they were proud of their bucks and so was I !!! Now, they both seem content to raise the bar and try to shoot bigger bucks or be happy to fill their Doe tags. On another note, I also have a 14 year old Daughter, she has been fortunate enough to take several deer at this point in her hunting career and she even asks me from time to time what some "old guys" are thinking when they shoot lil' bucks every year? She generally asks, "Are they afraid they won't be able to brag about shooting a "buck" so they have to shoot the first thing they see?" "Don't they want to see a better deer herd?" "Dont they want to save some deer for next year?"

What do you say for such disregard to any quality management??? Man, even the kids gotta wonder about some of ya? LOL!