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I pass up an average of twenty to thirty bucks a year so yes I do believe in waiting for a bigger buck.

most definetly once you shoot them they don' t get no bigger. Got quality buck regs voted in on one track on my club within 3 years the number of older class bucks improved dramatically

Absolutely in my opinion. Personally, I would rather shoot 1 mature buck that 10 small bucks.

No doubt about it. Last year the first day of season I had 12 young bucks in my food plot and didn' t fire a shot. All big bucks were once a little buck. Join QDMA.

I think it is worth it because if you let them go for a few years they will be big bucks.

If you hunt a spot that you have a chance of seeing that deer at a later date it is well worth it. I hunt on private property and have been passing small bucks for about 7 or 8 years. We starting protecting anything smaller than 8 pointers, but after a couple years we started seeing a lot of 8s. So we keep raising the min, we really go by the persons own choice. This isnt a hunting operation just a few hundred acres of our familys land. I have been passing 120 class bucks with gun on a regular basis, and seeing lots of P&Ys in bow season. It really pays off but you have to give it a few years, they just keep getting bigger.[8D]

I' m not aware of any state that doesn' t allow does to be tagged with a ' buck' tag (' any deer' tag), but I don' t hunt every state, so I could be wrong. However, if your state is like KS, ' buck tags' are really just ' any deer tags' so you can take a buck or doe on it. There' s no reason to harvest a young buck, harvesting a mature doe is more worthwhile in my eyes than harvesting a young buck, even up to large 4pts, small 6pts, and even one small 8pt (fruit basket rack) have walked acrossed my glass on several occasions, and I' ve moved on to fill one of my doe tags that day, come the end of ' buck season' if I haven' t gotten a buck yet, I can still use the any deer tag on a doe in extended season.

It all depends on what a " trophy" is to that hunter. Stubblejumper passes up
20-30 bucks a year. Some hunters don' t see that many bucks in a lifetime.
I' ve passed up small bucks before but that was only after I had one in the freezer
already. I enjoy shooting a monster buck as much as anyone(and I have taken
quite a few) but filling the freezer is first on my list. This takes the pressure off
and lets you really concentrate on that big boy.

I let em pass, but only for the reason that I have no desire to kill it.
If you consider that small buck worth killing (and it very well may be, due to the area you hunt, the amount of time you get to hunt, or your own personal experience or prefference..............SHOOT AWAY