Some people hunt because they like to eat deer other hunt because they like horns.
Some people shoot the first one they see, others wait for a mature one whether it be a buck or a doe. I fall into the latter category when the difference between a 1 1/2 year old buck and a 5 1/2 year old buck can get close to 50 percent. On my place we have a very strict policy on the age of a deer taken be it buck or doe. We probably have the healthiest deer population of any ranch in the Permian Basin. To understand where I’m coming from you need to understand what I do. We sell hunts and our clients chose us because we maintain a ration of 1-1 when it comes to bucks and does and the chances of taking a book buck are pretty good. Since we don’t feed and we’re low fence our bucks qualify as free range. We maintain the pastures, water sources and are very picky in what we cull from the ranch when it comes to buck’s.