I would shoot him cause that would probably be my biggest buck to date. If my wall looked like Jesse and others, Id pass.
HA. I appreciate the sentiment, but my wall ain't shit compared to say the Newsome boys, Gern, JD and more. I have some decent deer on the walls, but they won't score much more than this deer. What makes them trophies to me is knowing they were old deer. I may never kill a truly big deer, but if I kill a half dozen or more 5-6 year old deer in my life, I'll done well for myself. I'm to the point now though that I'd shoot a for sure OBB 3 year old just to get that monkey off my back, but I'd ultimately be pissed at myself given the general luck I've had with deer getting to 4 and beyond. Its a crap shoot for sure, but the old fuggers are fun to kill!
To get off topic a little, I will say that 2 of the 3 deer on my wall proved that old adage that with age, some bucks will shrink their home core area and get a little ballsy/predictable within those bounds. The buck I killed last year could have been killed from the same tree Saturday night, Sunday morning and was killed there Sunday evening. He may have been there Saturday morning TOO. My '08 buck didn't appear to leave a 100 acre area. It had all he needed and I killed him sneaking out the back door to his bedroom. So letting deer get old is a HUGE gamble most of the time, but if you get lucky and so does he, when he is 6+ years old, he could be a whole lot easier to kill than he was at 4.