Judging trail cam deer

[pills]

I am not going to buy that software that tells you about a bucks rack so I will ask your opinion: Shoot or let em walk?

[Questor]

Looks like a nice typical 3 to 4 year-old northern buck. If it's a trophy in your mind, then take it.  It could be a really good buck for your location; I can't really tell because I don't know your region. It wouldn't be considered a world-class trophy, though, or anything close to that.

[dukkillr]

Let him walk.  Weak mass, probably a 3 1/2 year old.  Can't shoot big bucks if you kill them before they reach their potential, it's as simple as that.

[pills]

Northeast Oklahoma

[Questor]

I'd expect the Green Country to have bucks with larger antlers.

[pills]

We have good deer no doubt. I am not used to trying to judge them based off of a picture like this.

[Graybeard]

That's a 2.5 year old buck with nice development for his age. Give him at least two more seasons and he'll be one to brag about.

[hardertr]

Like GB said.... let him walk.  He's young and looks like he's in pretty good shape.  He's also fairly symetrical and probably will be the same, but with more mass, next year barring any injury/illness/bullet holes.

If you stock that feeder with some protein pellets starting January, his rack will extend past his ears next year.

[Almtnman]

I'm not sure what part of the country you live or hunt and couldn't say if it was a good rack for that area or not. Some areas don't have big deer and some do. Just looking at it on the prespective of it being where I live, it looks like the deer needs another season to develop into a larger deer. Then again if you want to take a deer and that was the only one that happened your way, then it is a legal deer.

The question to ask is; will someone else take the deer before it makes it to next year or does the area have a small amount of hunting pressure so that it could develop more?