Chukardogs question about drop tines

[boneaddict]

  The only thing cooler than a drop tine buck is a double drop tine buck!
 Does anyone know if a drop tine is a genetic thing that can happen on any buck or does that specific gene have to be passed hereditarily? I've seen a few different antler abnormalities on the mountain I've hunted for 35 years. Stickers at many locations on the frame and blade like eye guards but never a drop tine. Lately, it's been just your boring everyday 4 points. Might be time to find another mountain to hunt?
 

Here was a young buck from this year.  Not 180 so I started a different thread.

[boneaddict]

I’ve looked over hundreds of bucks in this area and this was the first one I have seen here.

[chukardogs]

Bone, that's one of the coolest drop tines! Almost looks like it was a fork that broke off. It'll be awesome to see what it looks like next year if he makes it.
It looks to me like that may be one of those bucks that'll be a 3 point for life?

[C-Money]

Its a good question on how or why bucks grow drop tines...I can't remember ever seeing a drop tine in the wild. Sidenote...I'd be the guy to find a 3pt on a mountain full of boring everyday 4pts.  ....

[Pathfinder101]

Gotta be something in their genetic code.  This was my son's first buck.  We had trail camera pictures from him the year before as a 3 point with a single dropper (I can't find them right now).  A few years later, my older son killed this drop tine buck one draw over.  Had to be related...

[boneaddict]

Bone, that's one of the coolest drop tines! Almost looks like it was a fork that broke off. It'll be awesome to see what it looks like next year if he makes it.
It looks to me like that may be one of those bucks that'll be a 3 point for life?

He looked to me as being a young buck.  I was trying to decide if he was going to be something extremely special.   I have seen some giant threes in this area, so maybe that part of it as well.

[Ricochet]

What should we expect from this guy?  First pic is 2023, second is 2024.

[pianoman9701]

Cool-looking bucks for sure.

[Brute]

The only double drop tine I've ever got shots of.
Buck Norris  10 years ago today.

[Caseknife]

That is one of the rare going away views that would hold up!  Awesome buck

[kellama2001]

Cool-looking bucks for sure.

  I'd be thrilled just finding one of those buck's sheds

[chukardogs]

Holy smokes, Brute's aptly named! That's a serious set of antlers!!! Any way that buck knows how cool he is? Private or public land?

[boneaddict]

Buck Norris or the Nosler buck.   He was world famous.   He knew.  Sadly got smacked by a car.    He grew up on Nosler’s property and in the town of Bend.   A couple of his kids are there now, but I haven’t seen them. His sheds are cool.

[chukardogs]

My mom retired and moved to Crooked River ranch in the early 90s. I have pictures of monster bucks laying on the concrete pad of her driveway. Every once in a while you'd hear hooves on her back deck where she had plants that the deer sought out in pots. Nothing was safe.
Many years ago, a buddy and I went to fish the John Day river in early September. During the drive, on the edge of a canyon just outside of the town of Shaniko, stood (skylined) 4 of the biggest bucks I've seen in my life.
That region obviously has the potential to grow large antlers.
 It be cool to know if Brute's offspring have the hereditary gene to produce drop tines. If he lived a long life, there should be many of his offspring running around that area. I'll be in Bend later this year. I may have to make a point to look around that area in the September/October time frame.     

[boneaddict]

All the bigs at CRR get whacked by gov or raffle tag holders now.  I didn’t even see a big one there this year when I passed through. There are two I have seen photos of, if they didn’t get harvested, I’d like to see.