You could let your neighbor shoot it , then you could look at it on his wall .......

Or you could look at it in the ditch after it gets hit by a car.......

Supper nice deer. Keep the pic coming

I let a big 10 walk by last year holding out for a bigger one. He got hit on the road a week later.lol.

In NC, he might be a state record. Having said that I promised myself about 20 years ago to just shoot doe deer and leave the bucks for our children. Your buck could test my resolve. I know I would shoot it, then retire.

If I had shot that real nice twelve point, it would have been the best venison I had ever ate!

If the big one was still there after I picked up the gun I dropped, and put my tongue back in my mouth, and changed my drawers, and remembered how a to work the safety, and remembered where I put my shells, I would definitely shoot all around it until my gun was empty.
Then I would just go back home and lie to everybody that I only saw does and spikes and they were out of range.

I know what you mean Charles. Im over having to kill one. Never thought I would say that. Used to hunt 4 states every year. Michigan Wis. Penn. and finish in ohio. Now I just hunt behind the house. If its a good one ok if not its not life or death like it used to be. I'm ok and at peace with that.
Now coon and coyote are a different story I will kill everyone I can till the day I die.lol

Yep. Dont hunt horns anymore. Grandkid gets so excited when he sees a buck. Makes my day. Once the venison is ground, it is about the same anyway. Doe is probably better.

I remember spending hours reloading for the hottest, flatist round. Found out they all kill about the same. Now shoot mild cartridges.

Beautiful buck. I'd definitely attempt to shoot him, if I could calm my nerves. I have 2 on our farm in Illinois that caliber and I'm hopeful I can get a crack at one of them. Good luck to ya

Now there is an honest deer hunter!!

I'da killed him last year.

Id kill um both given the situation scrubs be fine eatin but that big un would hang for about 14 days in the end he'd be fine eatin as well! I've got a rule of thumb I go by I don't let nothing walk day 1 that id kill on the last day, I don't have eny good private land 29 acres I live on and some stuff I share with who ever shows up it's hit and miss, the rest is public I've killed some good deer 2 pope and youngs and some just nice 140s 150s with rifle. In the end me my wife and little girl need about 4 a yr I can't let many walk around here! Wished I could id like a big un every yr!
Colt

That is a great buck! You talking bow hunting him or rifle?

Bang Nuff said

The bigger one... shoot about a fasts possible. Small one, pass

The decision is yours. Who cares what anyone else thinks.

I’d drop him with my British 303.

Either one would keep the game fed for a while.

Same here, only they would have shot him last year.

I like looking at antlers as much as the next guy and I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't like to shoot him, but I've always been a meat hunter at heart and more so the older I get.

Good luck with him.

Bang!