Attachment 441252. I have several photos on the game cams. I would like to see him for myself.
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Attachment 441252. I have several photos on the game cams. I would like to see him for myself.
Looks like they may have been damaged in the summer and grew funny or he didn’t fare so well in a fight.
Possibly a run in with a car
No telling, we hunted a spot years ago where we had one 8 like that for a year and a year later I dropped a spike with both sides growing down .....:dono
I would like to lay eyes on it to see what is going on with it.
The spike had both matching going down and out a bit like an extra set of ears , his skull had both matching turned down areas where the antlers grew from , really odd looking and didn’t appear to be from an injury. He was butterball fat and healthy and almost passed on him , said doe , no wait , a broken spike ,,,, no wait just a minute ...Matching broke spikes ?Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
No way ,,,,,,KABOOM :Rofl
The skull at the base of the antler looks odd in the photos
Wehave years of pics on this guy but never see him in personAttachment 441754
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Wild looking antlers on that one
Sure is a tank on the hoofQuote:
Originally Posted by zummy
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After this one now. Got a nice 6 point last night I’ve been chasing for a few weeks.Attachment 441805
Years ago a friend of mine shot one that I swear was cross bred with a goat. Darnest thing I ever seen. People didn't have cell phones back then and nobody brought their brownie.
Last year I bow shot a real nice 9 point at 20 yds. The arrow hit right on the right elbow joint as it was pulled up and covering the heart. Arrow bounced out and the deer survived. Got pics all the way up to him shedding his horns. I really think this might be the same deer as this pic was from the same stand. I seen legendary bowhunter Gene Wensel in a seminar one time talking about racks that were freaky on one side. He said that usually a traumatic leg injury will cause his racks to grow deformed. Interestingly, he said a front leg injury will always deform on that side of his rack and a rear leg injury will affect the opposite side. It has to do with interfering with the blood flow during the antler building process.
I hit that deer last year in the right leg on this same stand. Could be him!
Interesting. I will have to research that farther
Bang !
I hear tell it’s a balance thing , one side grows lighter to offset the injury side , no clue , but it is common with post injury bucks .Quote:
Originally Posted by slabbandit
Interesting indeed
Saw a really odd one yesterday, one spike out front at an angle and down and a regular fork horn the other side .
Will likely harvest it next weekend, looked like it had an old head injury possibly, watched it from close up a while yesterday
They live a rough life. Had one step off a bank out in front of my truck last week during a driving rain. Had heavy antlers. Everything above the fork was broken off. I figured he had already been hit by a car and stepped out in front of me. When I got stopped I could have reached out ans smacked him.
we have had more big racked bucks dead on the highway this year than I have ever seen in my life , it goes on to be very likely some of them got hit and ran off , might be a really odd rack year next year . the rut has been extra deadly on the big boys this year for sure .
we typically see 1 or 2 maybe 3 nice bucks dead , this year maybe 10 or more ,,,pretty strange :dono
probably all the new drivers here from across the country , no clue and driving like they stole it
It has been a bad year for deer and cars here as well. The scavengers are certainly eating well. Here a lot of the road sides have stuff growing in the winters. Certainly is attractive to a hungry deer.