With all these guys hunting hard this last week of D16 and praying for a chance at any legal buck (some guys their first ever) and not getting a shot off I’m sure it didn’t go over well being called not a “True Hunter” . I have tried to sit this one out today but now here is my two cents. All of the above points are valid and are a matter of opinions of the age / size a deer should be harvested. Shooting 100 bucks in a zone at 1 ½ or 3 ½ is still 100 bucks so it will not do anything to increase the number of bucks in an area. So don’t worry about there not being any deer left for your kids to hunt. Not shooting young bucks would produce bigger deer and racks for sure. If I had a chunk of private property I would totally manage it for big bucks and it would only take a few years to see results, but I don’t, so on public land I let some walk and take the ones that get my heart pumping.
