About 10 years ago a friend of mine got a buck is NW South Dakota like that. It was the strangest thing any of us had seen. It had a gigantic body frame, almost as big as maybe an 8 month elk calf, just tall and big bones, not very much muscle tone. The hair was really faded out and looked a bit grey, face was nearly white. The rack was about 25" tall and only about 15" wide, but it was still in velvet all dried and shriveled up. It was a 6X11 most of which were stickers and little *censored* around the base. My buddy was freaking out cause it was in the velvet still, but after asking the Biologist about it he calmed down. The biologist said that the buck was very old probably close to 15 yrs and that his hormone levels most likely were really low and that is why the rack was so ugly and in velvet. Then he said if he would have got him in his prime it might have given the state record a run.
