RE: cull bucks
I always find the concept of a "cull" buck amusing. To me, if you are culling an animal it is because it is crippled or sickly.My dad killed a big buck with deformed looking antlers this year, but it turned out that the antlers were deformed by a shotgun slug.
But at the same time, i invented my own term a while back: "sausage buck." I don't give a damn about racks and dontreally like the meat off a"mature" rut swollen buck, so when my dad kills one like that, i just debone the thing and get all the meant made into sausage.