To shoot or not to shoot?

If you're on managed land and can assure he's safe, give him another year if you want. If you're on small property or a public spot, take him if you get the opportunity because someone else will if you don't.
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I shot a 200 lbs. deer with smaller antlers than those in the OP and it already had been shot that morning on public land; a hand-sized hunk of flesh right off the sternum and a hole in the upper-fore-limb.

take him if you get the opportunity because someone else will even if you thought you did.
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That is a nice, fat, 4-year old buck containing several delicious roasts.

Me, I have them cut up into roasts, and burger the remainder. Have the butcher add some fat to the burger and wrap it in one- or two-pound packets.

You won't improve on a buck like that until you harvest him and give other young boys a chance to move in on his territory and females.
 
My guess is If he's already patterned by bait/licks--take him now--cause the next guys down the road will use the same stuff and blast him soon.
 
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