This my problem, in my area we have 1 large land owner (750+acres), he is also the only one that has farm land in a couple square miles, the rest of the land is big woods. The rest of the land owners are between 5-80 acres. As you would guess the large land owner usually has his hunting pole filled with the largest bucks in the area. Bucks I may only get 1 picture a year on my land, and it is usually at night, during the end of October. I have several forks, spikes, and some years a basket rack that will come through during the day time. Rarely during gun hunting. I have told my son he can shoot what ever he would like, so in the years, he has shot a couple of them basket racks. I tell you, that is one way to piss off the large land owner. I had gotten into it with him more then once. He thinks let them go so they can grow, and his hunting party can shoot bigger deer. I have owned my land for close to 20 years, and during the rifle hunt, I have only seen 1 good buck that he would be ok with me shooting, and it walked through a small opening and I never got a shot. Over that span of almost 20 years, I have only shot 2 bucks, 1 basket 6, and a fork I thought was a doe. My son has shot 3 bucks in 10 years, 2 were basket racks, and 1 spike. This large land owner just talks shit about me to the other land owners, because "we shoot all the small buck" well the few we have taken were the bigger bucks that come onto my land.
Now my land is decent land, and is between this land owner, and a large track of state land, and I do get a lot of deer traveling through my land, and I have many regulars, but once they get big, they hang out near the bean, and corn fields and get shot by the large land owner. This large land owner also has a fairly large hunting party, with lots of kids, so during the youth season, his kids take out several of these basket racks, and also during the rifle season they end up getting a few as well.
Luckily I am not a rack hunter, I would love for my son to get a big one, but me personally, I have been fortunate to have really good hunting land until about 20 years ago, and I have taken my fair share of big deer, so it isnt that important to me anymore. I am content with some tasty meat in my freezer from does. For me, having meat in my freezer is the reason I hunt, so I personally pass on these basket racks, knowing all I am doing is letting the large land owner shoot another big buck in a year or 2.