If I let bucks like that live for another year, when they were right in my back yard, my grandpa would come back from the grave and threaten me with a razor strap. He completely believed in the meat quality of spikes and antlers up to a 4 point. Anything bigger, and 4 points were on the edge of that belief, was too hard to carry out and the meat was too tough and gamey. He loved him some young tender meat. Besides, he said he needed his 6 ft 1 inch bulky frame for elk season.