I have a pretty straight forward question. On my land in Iowa there have been two bucks taken this fall. Both were almost identically racked, each one nine points. The racks were certainly not huge, like a few deer that inhabit the area. I understand that these two deer were very likely the same age, but my question is: Were these two deer ever going to get bigger racks or were they as big as they would ever get due to genetics, habitat, etc. ?
The basic question I have to ask myself is should I have let the deer walk and grow next year or was it good to remove them from the local gene pool?

Thanks for any and all help
Bill the Dog