Jeff, funny you bring these pics back up. I was out trapping minnows yesterday and thought about bringing this same topic up and posting those pics again.

The story goes.......

December 28th 2004 I was late season bow hunting on the family land in WI. I saw a huge doe walking my way and got ready. When it got closer I noticed it was a buck that had shed both antlers within 12 hours of coming by me. The other thing I noticed was his tounge hanging out and he had a huge overbite. At 10 yards, I almost smoked him, because of his deformity.....but decided to let him walk.

The next year we never saw him until after season. We gota couple pics of him, but he had already shed one side. (your first picture) Notice the size of his rack and his tounge hanging out.

The following year, 2006, I was not going to be able to hunt the family land until late season bow again. I wanted to shoot this buck in the worst way....he was very mature (5.5-6.5) and extremely unique. During the WI gun season that year I was in SK and called the cabin to see how the hunt was going back home. My brother answered the phone and told me the story of a 23pt non-typical the neighbor had shot, 100 yards from our land. He told me "your not going to believe this, but its the overbite buck." My heart skipped a beat. I told him, "No freaking way that's the same buck. There's no way he could grow that much in one year." Well, he did and these are the pics to prove it.

So, if you ask me, cull buck is a lame term made up by the Texas ranches in order to shoot mature deer with less of a rack and still make money on them. If they didn't come up with the term Management Buck, no one would want to shoot those deer, only the big racked bucks. There's where it stated and unforutnately that's not where its staying.

I've said it before, if you want to start talking about trophy status of a buck, lets start taking pics of their teeth.