Originally Posted by Topgun 3006

That is really a good part of what is not known, as well as how much property the OP has full control over. While many would consider the best buck in that bunch a shooter in most areas, it is understandable why someone in IL and several of the other states that are known for growing big bucks wouldn't. If the OP has a small amount of acreage and that buck isn't on it most of the time other than to come to that feeder at night, the chances of taking it even if he thinks it's a shooter go way down. In order to pick and choose what is going to be taken out of a herd you need to either have a high fence where you have full control or a huge place where the deer aren't likely to go onto an adjacent piece of property where the people are shooting anything with horns or that is brown! A buck has a set piece of territory, regardless of who owns it, that he will stay in most of the year and when the rut gets going all bets are off as to where he may be.