I've hunted for years to get a nice buck. You need to get experience shooting live animals with a bow. It's not at all like shooting a target! I've shot three smaller bucks and I am now to the point where it's got to go on the wall for a buck to be a shooter. I still shot does for meat.

For your first deer don't be too fussy. After that first one you can keep upping your standards if thats what you want to do. If I where you I'd take what you can get!