In the light f you other question it is difficult to accertain what you are after. Hill deer are by and large self regulating. Too many, hinds do not reach body mass to reproduce limiting births. As explained at best practice event at Blair Atholl I attended deer will not reproduce if feeding is insufficient to reach an optimum weight thus the numbers do not increase. Cull suffient Hinds. they reproduce so numbers do remain relitively constant. Woodland deer are usually territorial so you cull from the best feeding someone moves in from the outskirts. The red deer culling you refered to is agricultural culling where deer are usually shot rather than culled because of crop damage. The priority is to reduce numbers in a situation where the crop value outweighs the beuty of the herd. A hill stalker will stalk a herd of hinds (or stags). He will then select the beast he thinks will improve the herd by its removal. He will instruct the rifle which hind is the target, deer culled. Agricultural removal n the other hand rarely represents such a clinical scenario. Safe shot, deer down is the norm. When that shot goes off the chances are the rest deer is three farms away on someone elses pemission. Thats why I liked that article where the big stag was left to be enjoyed in his full majesty. The site member who left it knew chances are it will go a couple of field away an someone else may take the shot but at least he gave it a chance. Take all the big ones out you end up with scrub stock. Lowland deer rarely go hungry they have plenty to eat. However the farmers and foresters do not like that scenario, Jim