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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1383112" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>Google it and read up. It’s a widely accepted postion among biologists. From Dr. James Kroll:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>If you want to shoot spikes and it’s legal and makes you happy, by all means do it.</strong> But this abuse of the term “culling bucks” is just that&#8230;abuse of a buzzword. You ain’t changing the genetics of a free ranging deer heard by killing spikes. All you’re doing is preventing young bucks from reaching maturity. You don’t know what kind of antlers a mature buck will have until he is mature. </p><p></p><p>If your goal is more nice bucks, shoot the hell out of does and let the little bucks walk. “Killing-wise” that’s the best we can do in Oklahoma. Our buck to doe ratio ain’t exactly balanced, and killing yearling bucks is just making it worse. Every dead yearling is a racked buck you ain’t gonna see in a couple years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1383112, member: 4319"] Google it and read up. It’s a widely accepted postion among biologists. From Dr. James Kroll: [B]If you want to shoot spikes and it’s legal and makes you happy, by all means do it.[/B] But this abuse of the term “culling bucks” is just that…abuse of a buzzword. You ain’t changing the genetics of a free ranging deer heard by killing spikes. All you’re doing is preventing young bucks from reaching maturity. You don’t know what kind of antlers a mature buck will have until he is mature. If your goal is more nice bucks, shoot the hell out of does and let the little bucks walk. “Killing-wise” that’s the best we can do in Oklahoma. Our buck to doe ratio ain’t exactly balanced, and killing yearling bucks is just making it worse. Every dead yearling is a racked buck you ain’t gonna see in a couple years. [/QUOTE]
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