ORIGINAL: silentassassin
I also just flat out disagree with the thought that a buck is measured soley by the size of his antlers. This gets to the heart of the difference between QDM and antler management.
And that's your perogative and it's therefore understood that you won't be using the term to describe anything you kill. BUT, I personally don't have any objections with someone that has the resources to manage the deer herd on their property with specific objectives of growing big deer. Whether you like or agree with the term, the fact is that is a necessary managment tool for people that are managing the herd on their property for big antlers. I don't have the resources to do that nor do I know anyone that does. But I certainly don't begrudge anyone that does have the resources and chooses to do so as long as they do so within the limits of the law. I don't think you can call a buck a "cull buck" until he's 4.5 and shown what his potential is. Which is precisely what serious deer managers do.