Wow, you shot spike bucks for 14 years in a row, maybe you should stand up and take a bow. You could rub it in my face for 300 days, and I would give a **** less. I am not going to go out to the fields and shoot the little bucks and not allow them to grow up in to the ones I want.

I'm at a stage as a hunter where shooting an immature, small racked buck does absolutely nothing for me...been there done that...so if I don't get a crack at a buck that suits me I will happily take a doe to fill the freezer.

whoaaaaa rimjob....

you do know that you are speaking to the UNDISPUTED KING OF ARCHERY....dont you??

Fran,real men let small bucks walk.Sounds like a self esteem issue! It should be enough to know what you could have killed versus actually putting the dumb as a rock 1.5 year old buck on the ground.
You are such agood guyin every other way.But the I have to kill a buck mentality that is so 1970's.Of course you weren't born then.

Ryan ,it is scarry how closely you and I think!

Competition competition competition. The world thrives on competition and thats what deer hunting is. Its all about shooting that bigger buck.

That's exactly where I am at this point.I hunt public land that is bowhuinting only,and there really is a future in letting the legal/scrub bucks walk for another year or more. The risk of them being killed by another hunterisn'ttoo much of an issue.

Where I live in southern maine we have ALOT of does so during archery we can harvest unlimited amounts of does. I usually put a mature doe in the freezer then shop around and get choosy. You may go a whole season here and not see anything bigger than a 6pt.

Welcome 3903, great place to learn, and share as well.A lot of pressure up there?

OMG did thatjust happen?