Antler choices

[boneaddict]

Its really funny how Ill take a dark antler over a light antler everytime.   Ill take mass over length, and Ill take gnarl or moss over just about anything.   

[grundy53]

Same here.

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[Wolfdog2314]

Love gnarley bases and mass. Especially on blacktails.

[fishnfur]

I love those mahogany red versions on Blacktails.  Gorgeous.

Hope you're hunting BoneAddict!

[bracer40]

Very nice photo.

[Bigshooter]

I agree with you 100% bone.

[tgomez]

Nothing like a dark rack with a ton of mass!

[no.cen.wa]

Awsome deer, I like the dark horn too, so what do you think is the "biggest reason" for the difference in horn color?

[JimmyHoffa]

Awsome deer, I like the dark horn too, so what do you think is the "biggest reason" for the difference in horn color?

trees that they rub.

[JJB11B]

I was thinking that maybe the light antlered critters drank light beer, and the heavy massed dark antlered critters drank good quality craft brews!

[7mmfan]

I was thinking that maybe the light antlered critters drank light beer, and the heavy massed dark antlered critters drank good quality craft brews!

Sounds reasonable

[hunterofelk]

Long time ago, in Montana, I saw two mature mule deer bucks still in velvet.   These deer were up about 9500 feet.  One, a typical, had light brown velvet, the other a non-typical had darker velvet.  I am not 100% sure, but I saw two bucks in December that looked an a lot like my two from late summer and one had light colored antlers and the other darker.  They were down the main drainage from the high country with the does.  I have seen deer from the Okanagon fire country with real dark, almost black antlers and they are my favorites.

[boneaddict]

Pretty much what they are rubbing on.  Sage, willows spruce pine etc.

[Band]

I believe some elk antlers are dark at least in part due to digging up dirt with their rack and I wonder if bucks ever do this as well?

[kellama2001]

I love dark antlers and character tines...the trashier the better.