If it were me I'd take the 6pt. They're all trophies in my book.

One of the things I like best about hunting open public land with no antler restrictions is the freedom to hunt as I like under state laws.
I don't have to worry about lease rules or clubs rules..etc. 99.9% of legal bucks that step in front of a hunter get shot at and if I feel like shooting one I will and if I don't I won't..I've done it both ways realizing that the ones I let walk might not make it..but that at least got what we all got..a chance.

I agree.
I'd shoot the deer but not because I was worried that if I didn't someone else would. Thats the wrong reason for killing any thing IMO

I would take it, you did the work in scouting it take it for yourself. Good luck with you decision.

You're dead wrong--It is not unethical--This is hunting public land. I'm happy you waited for the 1.5 to grow to 141, maybe you should have waited until it was 5.5 or 6.5 and maybe 160+. Come to Pa and hunt where I, and many others do.

Around here if it has a hard horn its dead on public land so I would probably shoot just to justify the money spent on gas to get there.

I grew up hunting Public Land in Northern MI. There was a lot of hunting pressure 15-20 years ago. My Grampa told me to "shoot when you have a shot, because you never know if you're going to get another". As long as you had a doe tag we followed this simple rule.
"If It's Brown It's Down"
Now I have my own land I like to practice QDM, but I go north to hunt still and the first legal buck I get a shot at I take it!

Personally, I don't hunt for survival, or because my family is going to starve. I hunt for pure enjoyment, and for me that is shooting the deer I want on my terms. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether I think someone else is going to shoot it, it is determined by whether I want to hang my only buck tag of the year on it. I eat tag soup on bucks fairly often for 2 reasons: 1) I can get all the meat I want from does, 2) I enjoy killing big bucks. You can't kill them when the're 4.5 if they died when they were 2.5. Just my opinion everyone is entitled to their own. The argument for "I might as well kill it or someone else will" just sounds to me like when one of my boys wants to play with a toy just so his brother can't... If you want to shoot the deer then shoot the deer, but don't kill it just so someone else doesn't get to. That someone else might just be a 10 year old kids first deer.