[SlowToady]

The idea is to cull the population of undesirable genetic traits. Spikes only grow to be older spikes...Which is exactly WHY you take them, not because it'll look cool on your wall. It has nothing to do with "passing" on spikes; we pass on deer 90% of hunters would shoot in a heart beat. Happened just the other day, my hunting buddy saw a good dear, but it was a little young..2 and a half maybe so he let it walk to get older, larger and let it reproduce some more. Not 30 minutes later someone shot that EXACT deer.

I would definitely take a sick deer, no sense letting it spread. I'll gladly "waste" my tags this year on a sick deer or a spike to increase the likelyhood of growing better deer for later years.

QDM -- Quality Deer Management. Cull the undesirables, and get a better stock of good/great deer.

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Not sure what you are saying here. Kill the spike horns and deer I consider 'ugly'? Spike horns grow up to be...spike horns? No. We pass on spikes.

If I saw a deer that was obviously ill, then yes, I might shoot it. More humane than what the coyotes would do that night.