Cull Buck? - Page 3

Geronimo · 01-09-2009, 12:12 AM

Nice pictures. That corn pile is a great place to get pics.

I've heard of people putting barbed wire across the upper part of those type of feeders in the spring. When the bucks start shedding their antlers, they'll nock them off when they go to feed.

gmlee · 01-09-2009, 08:03 AM

cull or no cull, meat is meat, and you can't eat the horn anyway. I'd pop him, but that's just me, and to each is his on.

CCC · 01-09-2009, 08:38 AM

Well back in the day the people thought crappy bucks breeding created other crappy bucks, but there have been allot of articles in the past few years that have suggested other wise. I have never really formed an oppinion one way or the other. I guess if you want meat knock him down.

69Viking · 01-09-2009, 08:54 AM

Great input guys, I can definitely see a varying of opinion. If anybody hunts that area the feed and feederwill be gone, just there for pictures and to find out if any deer were using a back trail along some pines. Lets us know what's coming in to the property from the pineson the adjacentproperty.

As far as his size I'd have to estimate him at 150+ pounds easy. I shot a 120 pound doe this year and he dwarfs her.

We go back next weekend to hunt. If I see him I'll take a close look at him and if he's 150+ pounds like I think he is and I see that his rack is a abnormal he might just finish out filling my freezer! Good discussion that's for sure.

Good luck to all those hunting this weekend, I wish I could be out there too.

blackwater · 01-09-2009, 09:41 AM

I figured from the info on the feeder that you weren't in Texas!!

Caspr21 · 01-09-2009, 10:14 AM

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ScullsMcNasty (1/8/2009)shoot him! he looks older than 2.5 to me and if he is then he should havea bigger rack than that. bust his ass, pull his jaw bone and prove some ppl wrong. i dnt know if the doe has 90% of the genes or not, kinda doubt it for some reason cause how can a deer give its offspring 90% of its genetic makeup. but you know for a fact that he has bad genes so waste him. plus he has a pretty cool rack.. id bust him if he walked out on me

btw culling bucks isnt gonna help your herd that much genetic wise but that deer doesnt look like a trophy rack to me. one thing for sure is he takes away valuable food that provide antler growth for trphy deer.

Very good points. Whether or not QDM is using the word "cull" buck or not he will still breed, and if that is his genetics, IT WILL BE EVIDENT IN THE RACKS OF HIS OFFSPRING. A few years ago, we on our place had a bad problem with main frame 8 pts, nice bucks, 4 points on the left side and a slick long main beam on the right. We killed 6 bucks that year like that between the ages of 21/2 and 3 1/2and havent seen it since then. Now there is really less evidence to prove that one doe or a couple of doeswould hold that much genetics that would produce that many buck offsprings in that short amout of time without having a strong genetic component from there sperm donor ie a mature buck with that characteristic. Just hard for me to say there is no such thing as a cull buck, or a genetically inferior buck

01-09-2009, 12:12 AM	#21
Geronimo Senior Member Grouper Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,066	RE: Cull Buck? Nice pictures. That corn pile is a great place to get pics. I've heard of people putting barbed wire across the upper part of those type of feeders in the spring. When the bucks start shedding their antlers, they'll nock them off when they go to feed.

01-09-2009, 08:03 AM	#22
gmlee Senior Member Mingo Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 154	RE: Cull Buck? cull or no cull, meat is meat, and you can't eat the horn anyway. I'd pop him, but that's just me, and to each is his on.

01-09-2009, 08:38 AM	#23
CCC Senior Member White Marlin Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Navarre Posts: 2,503	RE: Cull Buck? Well back in the day the people thought crappy bucks breeding created other crappy bucks, but there have been allot of articles in the past few years that have suggested other wise. I have never really formed an oppinion one way or the other. I guess if you want meat knock him down.

01-09-2009, 08:54 AM	#24
69Viking Senior Member White Marlin Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Fort Walton Beach, FL Posts: 2,644	RE: Cull Buck? Great input guys, I can definitely see a varying of opinion. If anybody hunts that area the feed and feederwill be gone, just there for pictures and to find out if any deer were using a back trail along some pines. Lets us know what's coming in to the property from the pineson the adjacentproperty. As far as his size I'd have to estimate him at 150+ pounds easy. I shot a 120 pound doe this year and he dwarfs her. We go back next weekend to hunt. If I see him I'll take a close look at him and if he's 150+ pounds like I think he is and I see that his rack is a abnormal he might just finish out filling my freezer! Good discussion that's for sure. Good luck to all those hunting this weekend, I wish I could be out there too.

01-09-2009, 09:41 AM	#25
blackwater Member Ruby Red Lip Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Ward Basin (below Bagdad) Posts: 42	RE: Cull Buck? I figured from the info on the feeder that you weren't in Texas!!

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