Genetics or weird coincidence

[boneaddict]

I filmed this buck in 2011. 

[boneaddict]

Then in 2014 I filmed this guy in the same spot give or take 5 FEET.

[boneaddict]

I assumed it was an injury on the 2011 buck.

[Rainier10]

Odd for sure. It switched sides also, right?

[kodiak 907]

Clumsy

[runamuk]

could be dietary as well too much or not enough of a certain element during antler growth.  Which if an area is deficient/excessive should show up in the population more broadly.  Are you sure these arent hanford deer 

[trytough]

A buddy of mine shot a 4 point muley in the winthrop area back in the late 90's that had knobs on his antlers, but only on one side just like your 2011 buck.

[Tbob]

A buddy of mine shot one like your 2011 pic, but he was in AZ..

[boneaddict]

Most of the time its due to an injury.   I thought it was funny how similar these guys were,  Cap coloring, small throat patch.  If 2011 got busy I could see a 2.5 year old buck looking like him.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Injury - “Acorn points” are a common injury-based oddity seen each fall. This is a swelling in the middle or near the tip of a hardened antler tine. Acorn points are caused when the buck bumps the growing tip of the tine on something hard. The velvet on the tip is injured and, in the process of repairing itself, deposits more antler material at that location. From Jim Hefelfinger of AZ G&F, the guru of deer abnormalities.

[boneaddict]

 

When another one shows up in three years I guess I will know.

[Boss .300 winmag]

That would have been a cool trophy with those acorns.

My buddie non typical had one on its rack.

[Band]

I think those first 2 pics are the same buck, are they not?

[MtnMuley]

That's a true definition of an acorn there.

[trophyhunt]

This is my wife's dads blacktail he shot several years ago in Wilkeson.



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[csaaphill]

darn it try again same deer I think I've been watching this small spike or 1x2 the last couple of years so same I think.
Or lack of nutrients. 

[boneaddict]

I think those first 2 pics are the same buck, are they not?

More likely Father/Son   

Thought it was weird they were literally standing within feet if not inches of the same spot, the same day, three years later.

[fishnfur]

I'm betting on two different deer.  The first has eye guards and seems to fit the provided description of an acorn buck - completely new to me.   The second buck , a year later, does not have eye guards but really cool inward hooking points. 

Great pictures, whatever the case.  The fact that they were in the same spot on two different years leaves me with but one question - what are the coordinates of that spot?? 

[TommyH]

I'm a whitetail guy. But the migration /travel routes these mulies do every year has me wishing I'd spend more time chasing them! Thanks for that bone! It's pretty sweet to return to a exact spot a year or two later and have the same  or similar encounters.

[Biggerhammer]

I've taken a buck with a simular tip here in Eastern WA.

[Kazekurt]

The buck in my profile pic had 5 out of 8 Pts acorn tipped