Great deer, I would have shot him also. Congrats.

However, just as an aside. According to articles in NAW and Bowhunter, the majority of does are bred by young deer (1-3). The big mature bucks only breed with a small portion of does. I think the addage of removing them from the gene pool only holds true on ranches where they have truely fabulous gene pools. Interesting articles if anyone gets the magazines. One of them was about whether culling inferior actually works.