to cull or not to cull

[creativomjh]

would yall give this little guy another year and see what happens?

 

[DntBrnDPig]

Of course. Unless you just wanted to eat him. That's a really young deer.

 

[BlountArrow]

Most East TN Hunters would say SHOOT!
Myself excluded.

 

[Outdoor Enthusiast]

He's just a little feller. I would not shoot him.

 

[BSK]

"Culling" does nothing but remove a deer from the population. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT "improve antler genetics" by culling.

 

[DOC1187]

let him walk

 

[easy45]

No way for me, he would have 2 years, maybe even 3 before I even considered killed him

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

its a yearling

 

[Elmer]

BSK how do you improve antler genetics?

 

[browning glock]

take him out

 

[BlountArrow]

take him out

He's probably originally from East Tenn.

 

[hunter drew]

It's a spike. A year and a half old. No I wouldn't shoot him. 3.5 year old spike yes

 

[BSK]

BSK how do you improve antler genetics?

You don't. Altering genetics of any kind in the wild is impossible.

 

[Nealmeally]

Why "cull" him???????

He hasn't even had a chance to grow yet..

He may be a 150 in 3 years ...

 

[Hit&Miss84]

I might shoot em both, hard to tell what I'm going to to when somebody hands me a gun! Seriously though I think if you are trying to grow big bucks you should let him go and see what happens. If you let him go he may turn into a nice buck, if you shoot him he will just die.

 

[Lawrence]

No way
if you want meet shoot a doe

 

[creativomjh]

maybe i'll phrase my question differently. if i see him this year, i wouldn't shoot him anyways because he's a little guy. i've got a way bigger doe problem than antler genetics (which is a huge misconception).

i was really wondering, is he always going to be a unicorn? he's been on several of my cameras for months, so I'm pretty certain he's never had two. a cull deer at 3.5 or 1.5 is still a cull deer in my eyes.

 

[BlountArrow]

Way too early for anyone to say he will always be "this" or "that". Give him a chance and see what happens. Like one guy said, all you can know is that at this point if you kill him he won't get any bigger - that I will guarantee .

 

[infoman jr.]

Ahh I'd let him live. He might surprise you.

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

Hes just a baby