re: Cull buck?

Great pics. The lot of them look healthy.

Back to the original question. Is he a cull? Given what else you've got going on its probably safe to say he's inferior.

The buck in the first pic is 3.5 and possibly/probably older. Aside from just being bigger in general I want to draw your attention to the bases of the deer in the first pic. The circumference is large. I don't care where a whitetail is from when a deer ages its bases get full and mass happens even if the number and length of tines remains stable. IMO, thats what's missing on the deer in question. No mass, no big bases, no width, no junk, no nothing. I believe the data shows that even with poor genetics in terms of number of points that you will see mass, etc with age.

The debate can rage on about racks and aging but I cannot see any way he's 3.5 years old. I'd bet my money he's a weak 2.5 year old only because if I stare at the posterior pic I can make myself believe his left beam is palmated even though it's likely just glare from the sun.

He's fat or possibly just distended. When I hunted the Ocmulgee Basin we saw lots of deer and pigs that were swollen like ticks. It was from eating a fermented berry which caused the entire stomach/intestine to swell with gas. Usually around the end of September.

Good luck, hope you bag a good one.