I can’t stand the term cull buck. I’m not shooting a buck and calling it a “cull” regardless of how many tags I have. That there is a real nice buck, one more year, 7 pts or not & he’s a shooter for me. He’s almost a shooter as it stands. I don’t think you can change the genetics of a free ranging herd to any degree just by “culling” out less desirable bucks.

HOWEVER, someone did explain the “Cull” buck term that to me made more sense than the getting rid of its genetics. They said that on those high managed farms, a buck that was old, but wasn’t going to hit trophy status needed culled, just because it was another mouth to feed. Had nothing to do with inferior genetics. When it wasn’t going to be a high priced trophy, it fell into the category just like taking a doe for numbers management. No sense keeping around another mouth to feed that wasn’t going to pull in the big $$. To me, that makes more sense. Even though I still don’t buy into the ultra-highly managed philosophy on many of those ranches.