I like a combination of the 2. I don’t mind letting inferior older bucks live as long as they are not a known bully. I will say that I was in a club for awhile that had a goal of shooting every 4+ year old buck you could up to a 3 buck per member limit. And based on camera pics, we weren’t able to kill anywhere close to all of them. And after the first year of applying this rule, they pretty much stopped the 3 year old oopsies. Bucks were anywhere from 4-8 years old.

Same thing at my brother in laws place. They shoot any 4 year old buck and they still kill plenty of 5-8 year olds every year.