Culling Spikes: Whitetail Deer Management Tips. Posted: June 26, 2025 | Last updated: June 26, 2025. James Bigley breaks down deer management by explaining why and how to cull spike bucks.

Walsh said if a hunter sees a buck with something like four points on one side and a spike on the other for a couple of seasons, go ahead and remove it. The same would go for a 6-point that's five ...

Last year, hunters checked 188,928 deer during the November portion of firearms deer season with 102,054 being antlered bucks, 16,537 being button bucks, and 70,337 being does.

We went early in case that buck or any buck showed up early. We’d been sitting for about an hour and had seen a small group of does 400 yards away at the far end of the food plot.

Goeppner said he first saw the animal in 2021 as a spike buck. This season, Goeppner said he was keeping an eye on the buck while watching trail cameras before finally harvesting the rare deer.

Beryl Novak shot a spike buck on opening morning of the 2022 Minnesota firearms deer hunting season out of this small shack on his property northwest of Cook, Minn. GREANEY, Minn. — Beryl Novak ...

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SPENCER COUNTY, Ind. (WFIE/Gray News) - A bow hunter in Indiana said he got “the deer of a lifetime” over this past weekend. Noah Goeppner told WFIE that he was able to hit a white buck from ...