super hunt54---That's pretty much the same thing I stated earlier and why I mentioned that buck is a shooter to most guys. A lot of people on the net say they are trophy hunters, intimating that they only will shoot a mature deer. However, when it comes down to squeezing the trigger that mature buck comes down to one that is just decent. I used to hunt the south Texas brush country and passed on lots of bucks like that buck here will probably be when he hardens in a couple months. It was easy to do though because you never knew when a world record type buck would step out of the brush. I never saw one, but I was sure waiting on him, LOL! Looking back now I probably passed on several that would have been 160" class deer, especially one 10 point buck that was really wide that I watched and let grow for two years. The third year when I figured I'd shoot him I never saw him in over a month of hunting where he always was. He must have died of old age, a vehicle accident, or someone on the adjacent ranch may have wacked him. I do have great video footage of him that second year when he was probably 5 or 6 years old and it's really just as cool watching him than it would be if he was dead here on the wall! When you're in a lot of areas like we're talking about, this buck would not make it past this year if anyone gets a good crack at him whether he's mature or not for the area he's in. That's one neat thing about hunting in that as long as we are legal we can individually choose what will make each of us happy.