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do you kill cull bucks
#3335771
01/27/21 11:12 AM
01/27/21 11:12 AM
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Posts: 4,017 Montgomery,al,usa
Davyalabama
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If you can tell a buck has deformed antlers, 3 on one side and 1 or 2 on the other, do you take him out?
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” Napoleon Hill The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Thoreau
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Re: do you kill cull bucks
[Re: Davyalabama]
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01/27/21 11:16 AM
01/27/21 11:16 AM
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Posts: 6,719 Huntsville, Al
LUMPY
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My goal is to kill mature bucks. I killed a 3 year old 5 point this year because I don’t see him having potential. I’ve let many 3 year old deer walk over the years that had more potential. I also let a 1 year old 4 point (3 on left, 1 on right) walk because I don’t believe you can judge potential at this young of an age.
I also don’t think you can change genetics through “culling” but you can let the deer with more potential have the resource to develop into their potential by shooting deer with less potential.
Last edited by LUMPY; 01/27/21 11:18 AM.
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Re: do you kill cull bucks
[Re: Davyalabama]
#3335794
01/27/21 11:36 AM
01/27/21 11:36 AM
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Posts: 7,162 In The Stack
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14 point
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I have a 3 year old this year with 4 on one side and one long beam on the other that goes straight out. I'm not gonna kill him just to see if it corrects itself next year. If he's s mess again I'll pop him first chance I get next year.
"I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred ****heads" - Colonel Charlie Beckwith Founder Delta Force
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Re: do you kill cull bucks
[Re: LUMPY]
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01/27/21 12:51 PM
01/27/21 12:51 PM
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Posts: 36,387 alabama
BhamFred
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My goal is to kill mature bucks. I killed a 3 year old 5 point this year because I don’t see him having potential. I’ve let many 3 year old deer walk over the years that had more potential. I also let a 1 year old 4 point (3 on left, 1 on right) walk because I don’t believe you can judge potential at this young of an age.
I also don’t think you can change genetics through “culling” but you can let the deer with more potential have the resource to develop into their potential by shooting deer with less potential. the problem with your thinking is that you do not know what that buck may or may not of had happen to him. I know of a high fence buck that was one of four fawns born by one doe, same night. He weighed 2 lbs at birth, very low. Two of his womb siblings died within hours. At 1 year he had uneven 4" spikes. At four he had 17 points and scored in 180s. Unless you have intimate knowledge of a bucks life you cannot make an informed decision on culling.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: do you kill cull bucks
[Re: Mbrock]
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01/27/21 12:52 PM
01/27/21 12:52 PM
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BhamFred
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I’ve seen many of them grow out of injury or spike on one side and turn into dang good deer. a young deer with a skeletal injury will usually grow out it in 2-4 years.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: do you kill cull bucks
[Re: Wapiti55]
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01/27/21 12:54 PM
01/27/21 12:54 PM
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BhamFred
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What about a 3.5 + that’s still a spike on both sides? Spikes that look like a elk spike. I'd probably shoot him. In 60 years of hunting deer I have NEVER seen a 3 year old spike and have only seen ONE two year old spike. Out of thousands of deer I have seen
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: do you kill cull bucks
[Re: Davyalabama]
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01/27/21 02:32 PM
01/27/21 02:32 PM
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2Dogs
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Cull is usually an excuse to just shoot something and one man's cull is another man's trophy.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: do you kill cull bucks
[Re: Davyalabama]
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01/27/21 03:16 PM
01/27/21 03:16 PM
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BhamFred
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one just has to accept hat when you let nice 3-4 year old bucks walk you will never see a lot of them again, depending on size of property, pressure, neighbors, whatever. Just a fact of hunting big old deer.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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