Originally Posted By: Frankie
Originally Posted By: QDMAV8R
Most, if not all, free ranging whitetail bucks are culls. Genetically inferior in some form or fashion. So you have a few choices: 1) shoot em all, 2) shoot some of them, or 3) let them develop/grow to be the most they can be.
Unless you are high fencing and buying straws for insemination at $10,000+ a pop, your little trigger finger is not going to change the antler configurations in your neck of the woods.
A trophy is in the eye of the beholder. However, a mature deer has done all he is able to do and I can appreciate and respect that not all of them are going to be B&C, but are "trophies" none the less, regardless of antler configuration.
Cull, is a four letter word of meaningless significance in free ranging deer herds.



so you know , this is what i consider a cull to be for my area . if i can help it i see no need for him to stay in the population . this is last year picture taken after season .

http://bamahunter.com/102.JPG

http://bamahunter.com/103.JPG


That deer in the pics is not a young deer and definetly very mature. He might even be well past his prime and in decline. Look at that big toad body, the mass and beam length of that old warrior is "trophy class" to me. Now he will not score well, but he has lived to produce all he could be and I for one would consider him impressive, not a cull.


"Never met a deer that I didn't like" - QDMAV8R