Nice looking buck. While there are a lot of folks that dissagree on hunting them, I think its somehting that ha to be done and the various state and wildlife divisions pretty well have it figured out how many deer the area will support and have them do more than just survive. Hunting is a necessary thing, and it does enhance the deers life.
In this area we are allowed a deer a day for close to 90 days, and they numbers of deer are still extremely high......so therefore allour deer have adapted to being much smaller due to competition for food and territory, but the occasional large buck does come along every now and then, but the body weight certainly does not rival most northern states deer weights. I got 5 this past season, 3 bucks 2 doe...nothing even close to being over 100 pounds, although the one buck had 8 points.
We have a wolf hybrid (97%) and they need fresh meat to do well. So if it was not for having the wolf I would have been happy with 2 or three for the freezer for us to eat. I am more of a meat hunter than a trophy hunter as we enjoy venison espeically when cooked on the grille or turned into sausage.......No room to hang a mount so antlers are not a must have ;-) but those bucks need to be thinned out more than the does.