Dark Whitetail antlers

[Gobble]

Look how dark the antlers were on the Whitetail I shot during the late hunt this year, they were splotchy and almost as dark as a Blacktail.

The area we were hunting is thick like the westside (just south of Colville)  Kind of weird, most of the WT I have shot had light colored horns.




 

[BONE COLLECTOR]

I LIKE THEM DARK...WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WAS RUBBIN ON TO GET THEM THAT COLOR?

[archery288]

I have been over whitetail hunting the past week and half and have seen quite a few bucks with chocolate antlers like that!! They look good dark!

[Gobble]

I LIKE THEM DARK...WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WAS RUBBIN ON TO GET THEM THAT COLOR?

I don't know, Cedar?

[croix]

If the rut was on, maybe a doe stopped short. 

[bucklucky]

Do you have a picture of them antlers dry? Looks kind of wierd.

[Antlershed]

His left side looks more like elk coloring with the ivory tips. 

[Gobble]

Do you have a picture of them antlers dry? Looks kind of wierd.

No I don't. They look like the color of a Rosie Elk rack

[snipekillr]

Thats crazy

[fc2038]

That is a cool lookin color. I like that

[deaddog]

If the rut was on, maybe a doe stopped short. 

[Palmer]

Chocolate brown antlers are from rubbing the pine trees and maybe eating them too.  A taxidermist was telling me this.
These bucks were rubbing pine trees and surrounded by pines.

[PolarBear]

Just about every one of my whitetails have dark antlers.  I only hunt heavy timber and thick brush so the antlers tend to be darker than the deer from open sage, grass or wheat fields.  Fir and pine seem to give them a nice chocolate brown while cedar gives them a little reddish brown.

[Palmer]

Here are some with lighter antlers where there are pines.  There are also tamarak and fir.