My belief is if I don't ever get one that scores over 150 I will never get a head mount.
If I adopted that policy here in Alabama I would probably never get to mount a deer. I don't have any kind of minimum requirement. I can't really write a specific quantitative standard for what makes a buck a wall hanger to me but I know one when I see it. Does that sound stupid? I think it encompasses a lot of thinks. For example, I have a buddy who has a mount of what by even Alabama standards is a very average 8 point deer. He would never mount a deer that size now and would not have then if it had been a gun kill but it was the first nice racked buck he ever killed with a bow. And that makes it special to him.
If everyone only shot 3 1/2 year old bucks, we could all shoot 3 1/2 year old bucks. I will never understand why people will shoot a dink and then throw his rack in a pile in the garage with all the other dinks or let the dog chew on it. EVERYONE wants to shoot a big buck but most can't stand to end a season without killing something. A 1 1/2 year old buck is the dumbest deer in the woods. If you want the meat then shoot a doe and let the dinks grow.
We follow this advice on our land and I do wish the people around us would too but then my reasons are selfish. I want to kill big bucks. However, there are people out there (I know some) that don't give a rats @$$ about a set of horns. Who am I to say that they are wrong to hunt just for meat so long as they obey the game laws in their area and don't kill more than they can use.