On this site yes. This is not a trophy hunter friendly site. However in the general public I would say no. I believe the average nonhunter feels much better about a mature big bodied big racked male being killed than a doe or especially a fawn, simply because it is a mature male animal that has the ability and the tools to fend for itself.

So which would make a nonhunter more upset seeing lying on the back of a trailer, a 140" 4.5 yr buck or a spike or a doe. And I think most know that you can still eat a big buck. I know people who have made landowners angry by killing immature deer, especially fawns. I never said meat hunters look down on trophy hunters, I just stated this isn't a trophy hunter friendly site and it is proven each time a thread like this surfaces. But that is ok, not wrong with disagreement.

Just the fact that folks consider bucks "small" and "big" says something....I don't know exactly what, but they are all bucks and provide meat for the table in my eyes. Now don't get me wrong, I pass on yearling bucks too with the hopes they will grow some and I firmly believe to each his own, but classifying folks as killing "small" and "big" bucks seems judgmental in itself. jmo fwiw.

And I couldn't care less if someone wants to wait for a 175" buck and won't shoot nothing but, or shoots the first button he/she sees on opening day of archery season either.