Being new to bow hunting I struggle with my own feelings on this subject. I've gun hunted for many years and our properties just don't produce many buck sightings of any age during the rifle season. Bow hunting the same properties is a totally different world. Its fairly common to see younger bucks but not always in bow range presenting a good shot. Mature bucks are still very uncommon. But we gotten pretty good at catching them on our cameras, mostly at night of course. I really want to get a nice 3.5+ buck, never have before. But as bow season goes on and my available days to hunt dwindle down, I ponder what to do. Do I try to take a younger buck if it presents a clean shot? If I do obviuously I'm giving up the opportunity to get what I'm really after for the season. But who knows if I would even see one of my targets anyways.
For now the younger ones still make me happy so that's what I lean towards. Hopefully in another year or two I will "graduate" up and put some serious time and effort strictly towards a wall hanger.