re: Would you be proud of killing these deer?

Neither here nor there to me but do keep in mind that these aren't deer he's fed are from a place with a fence around it. He actually "hunted" them.

I strictly bow hunt on a small 100 acre tract of land and would be embarrassed at shooting those little deer.

y'all can kill what you want where you hunt, however, on the land we manage, a good bit of it is under the Texas MLD management program, and we place age restrictions on the bucks they harvest. We try to get them to let the deer up to 2.5 walk, and then 3.5 too. These deer have the genetics, and the food. What they lack for antler development is growing older. And the program works. On the management unit my lease is a part of, we have about 6000 acres under suck regulations. Last season, they did not kill a buck under 4.5. This season, there have been 10-12 (at least) bucks killed that qualify for Texas Big Game Awards (minimum 125) with 6-8 of them going over 135. We have clubs that have already filled their buck tags with only good mature deer and are still seeing deer as big or bigger than those they killed. They cannot wait for next season already. It has been, by far, the most successful season we have had.

On the lands not under MLD, they are required to go with the state's law of a 13" spread, unless it has at least one unbranched antler, and they can only take one buck with such a spread. This rule was put in place to allow younger basket rack bucks to get older, and it's working. Of course there are some older deer with 12" spreads, and depending on the GW you might not get ticketed for an older deer with a less that 13 sprea, because it doesn't violate "the spirit of the law"