What do you think take him out or see if he starts to develop into something next year???

I would let him walk...

I would let him walk at least one more year.

Wait another year.

I would let him walk at least 4 more years

He's young. I agree hold off and I would say at least 2 years.

Let him walk

Let him walk

He's dead on our ranch. Killed 12 like him so far this year.

One more year.....unless he is still around towards the end of your season and you need the Meat!!!

Killing off an entire age class?

Let him go. He's a baby.

x2---Hope he doesn't expect to see any big deer in 3 years

let him go he still got milk on his lips

Let him go!!! Last year I had 8 spikes on camera. This year I have 2 that are definatly yearlings. Last year there were a lot of 2, 4 and 6 pt bucks, now there a lot of 6, 8 and 10 pts. At my house I have two fawns that just hit the ground about 2 mos ago. I'd bet the farm they will be spikes next year. However they will probably make 8 the year after. I believe, that the sooner some realize that once a spike, does not mean, always a spike, the sooner they will see the deer they have been looking for.

X2

It depends on your management goals. HF or LF, large or small ranch? How many yearlings do you have? Do all the yearling look like this? For me I would cull him since bucks with less than 6 points as a yearling average only 20% of the age class for me over the last 3 yrs. If you want more just like him keep him if not then cull him. But without knowing your ranch or your goals hard for anyone to make a blanket call on your ranch only seeing one deer.

Young deer and seems to have a broken brow tine. I would let him walk.

Thank you. We have more 8 pt yearlings than spikes anyways. So, any spike that doesn't fork on both sides gets shot. What would you rather have, a spike or an 8 pt yearling. So, it makes sense for all spikes to die, and the Kerr wildlife area has had an ongoing study for 30+ years that spikes won't be as big as 8 pts ever on average. To me, its easy to see that 8 pts will be bigger than spikes on average at every age class.

let him go

see my signature.

Not everyone is trying to raise the most mature deer possible. Killing the smallest of each age class is good population control.

so killing 12 1.5 year old deer that are not even spikes is good management


No thats an excuse to use all your tags... your property so do as you please but call it what it is.... freezer meat not management

Come visit my world and I will show you BOBO.

and for the record the title says cull... cull as in a term used to help better the genetics or herd health... shooting deer like mentioned above is doing neither.

his deer he can shoot as many as his tags or MLD program allows, i could care less but thats not management and not culling.. That is shooting deer and filling the freeze, which IMO is to each his own and I have no problem with it but atleast call it what it is

cull