Bill,
Don't kid yourself, LOL, Howard Hill would have done the same thing, if he only had one buck tag to fill and knew there were bigger bucks out there. He hunted in a different place and time!
It is easy to pass up the younguns when you already have meat in the freezer, you only get one buck a year, you have plenty of time to hunt, and you have trail cam pics of monster bucks running around your property!
Late season on public ground, that youngun is getting a closed sign headed his way. LOL!