Originally Posted By: jono23
Sometimes, people are new to hunting, and try for multiple seasons before they kill a deer. Sometimes, a deer finally walks in front of them, and it is a spike or a 4 point. So then that hunter kills the deer, and they are super happy, and then the whole point of hunting is accomplished.


I haven't killed any, and had the opportunity to, but that is an extremely understandable reason why someone would kill a spike or a 4 point.


Good post Jono. Part of the problem is people getting too caught up in worrying about antler score.

I saw a kid bring in a button buck to the camp at a club I was in near Skyline about 20 years ago. It was a perfectly legal kill according to club rules. This boy was about 17 or 18 and it was his first bow kill ever. He was absolutely thrilled and his face was beaming. Nothing could bring him down, nothing. That is, until a Jerk across the parking area yelled out something like, "What the hell did you kill there boy, a damned rabbit?" Whatever the actual words were, I don't remember for sure. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that the look on that boys face changed instantly. I tried to congratulate him on his first bow kill, but the damage was already done.