Management vs Cull

[Txsurveyor2014]

Obviously a widely opinionated subject. The way I see it is a cull is defined as a mature deer with inferior antler genetics. Any deer on our place that's 5 or older a 120 and under is a cull. Any deer 5 or older 120 to 139 is managment.

And a trophy is in the eye of the beholder as long as he's mature.

^^^^ This is how I would break it down also (except our deer would be smaller...LOL)

[150class]

Obviously a widely opinionated subject. The way I see it is a cull is defined as a mature deer with inferior antler genetics. Any deer on our place that's 5 or older a 120 and under is a cull. Any deer 5 or older 120 to 139 is managment.

And a trophy is in the eye of the beholder as long as he's mature.

Basically the above if they aren’t all clumped into the same catogory

[muzzlebrake]

High fence = management
Low fence = cull

Ok, argument over!

[sharpstick35]

I managed to kill a cull before the harvest.

[Stoof]

Management - you know, that’s not a bad deer but I’m not sure he’ll produce the type of offspring we’re looking for

Cull - good Lord, somebody shoot that thing before it humps another doe!


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[BrokenJ]

Age/score in my book. Cull 3 yr old and younger. If a buck made it to 4 or more and doesn't make criteria, at that point I would say management. Hard for me to call a 130inch plus deer a cull.

[BrandonA]

Management the biggest 8-9 point you can kill thats not a trophy. Cull anything 7 or less. Thats the way it appears most the time

[Drycreek3189]

To me, any mature buck is a trophy. An immature buck, regardless of traits, is likely being killed before its prime. Which is fine if it’s legal and the hunter is happy.

It irks me a little when folks post a pic of their 130 class 5-year-old buck and call it a management buck. That’s a trophy where most of us hunt.

[breederbuck33]

To me "Cull" means we need to take some mouths off the place so we are going to "Cull" some of the smaller deer in any particular age group. "Management" is a term for a deer that is mature and will never really reach that desired trophy status that your striving for in your deer heard.

[Russ79]

It's semantics...what one person call a cull another will call management. A management buck is one you are going to "cull" from the herd so ....it's a cull.

[Big pig]

To me "Cull" means we need to take some mouths off the place so we are going to "Cull" some of the smaller deer in any particular age group. "Management" is a term for a deer that is mature and will never really reach that desired trophy status that your striving for in your deer heard.

About what I think. We don’t cull till they are at least three though.
Low fence so we don’t see an over abundance of mature bucks.

[EastTexasMan]

Way I see it, you either have a trophy or a cull. "management" was created to justify shooting a certain scoring buck on big leases.

He's either a trophy buck, or your "manage" to "Cull him". If you kill him knowing he isn't a trophy, and to get him out of the herd, you just culled him. Call him whatever you want.

[mastercraftka]

could be different on every property.

[ctom87]

Outsider looking in...relatively new to the sport with five skins on the wall, three of which were taken Dec 1 and 2 this year on a meat-seeking expedition.

From what I have gained in my quest for knowledge and learning the sport, "Culling" the herd would be to harvest deer that those hunting the land have deemed inferior; a deer that has hit his "ceiling" of growth; has no potential, or the potential shown in a younger deer isn't enough to allow to continue breeding inferior genes.

Management, at least to me, and I may be way off here (and this is a great learning opportunity to me) would be the steps taken on the land being hunting to ensure the highest quality/potential is reached. To me, culling is a part of management, as are food plots, protein, changes to the environment to increase survival/growth of the herd.

Is there something I am missing here? Good conversation and will read up on the other thread someone posted early on in this one.

[WamBow]

It's semantics...what one person call a cull another will call management. A management buck is one you are going to "cull" from the herd so ....it's a cull.

I disagree!!It's...what one person call a management another will call cull. A cull buck is one you are going to "manage" from the herd so ....it's a manager.