Not sure if this holds water or just a coincidence. But an old hunting buddy of mine back at Ft. Bragg, NC shot a Whitetail with a rack that was complete distorted on one side. When we went back to the hunting station to sign out from the hunting area, we showed it to the wildlife officer. He told us to look for an old injury on the opposite side of the deer as the distorted side of the rack. Sure enough, the deer had been shot in the left front quarter at some point and the right side of his rack was the craziest thing I had ever seen. Just throwing that out there.