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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: backwoods_boy on September 10, 2008, 03:21:17 PM

Title: have you seen this.......holy cow! buck-has-third-antler-in-the-eye
Post by: backwoods_boy on September 10, 2008, 03:21:17 PM: http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/12/07/big-kansas-buck-has-third-antler-in-the-eye/
Title: Re: have you seen this.......holy cow! buck-has-third-antler-in-the-eye
Post by: HuntingFanatic on September 10, 2008, 03:25:25 PM: seen it! still cool!
Title: Re: have you seen this.......holy cow! buck-has-third-antler-in-the-eye
Post by: MichaelJ on September 10, 2008, 03:56:59 PM: Seen it to but it looks to me like he got stuck by another buck and tore the antler off in the velvet stages and then it just stayed there! Crazy for sure!

Michael
Title: Re: have you seen this.......holy cow! buck-has-third-antler-in-the-eye
Post by: backwoods_boy on September 10, 2008, 03:58:23 PM: thats what i thought too...............
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Post by: shorthair-on-point on September 10, 2008, 04:19:27 PM: ouch
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on September 10, 2008, 04:43:43 PM: Don't see that everyday
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Post by: markts on September 10, 2008, 04:45:14 PM: Horn of another deer IMO
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Post by: billythekidrock on September 10, 2008, 06:42:59 PM: Seen it before. It is an actual tine growing. I have a pic (and posted it in the past) of the cleaned skull somewhere.
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on September 10, 2008, 10:37:37 PM: BTKR is right. That deer was not stuck in the eye by another deer. That is an actuall drop tine that the deer grew under the skin. I saw this pic several times. The first time a week after the buck was killed.

It should be pretty obvious in the pic that it is a drop tine and not an antler broke off from another deer. If you read the text at the bottom of the picture it will tell you also.

"The buck pictured here was harvested by Rex Covell of Shawnee, Kansas, during a Miami County archery hunt on October 23. The buck, which actually has three antlers, has a drop-tine-like antler which passes through the head and drops out adjacent the eye!"
Title: Re: have you seen this.......holy cow! buck-has-third-antler-in-the-eye
Post by: billythekidrock on September 11, 2008, 05:34:19 AM: I can't find the skull pic, but I think Michelle was the one to originally post it. If you look closely at the kill photo you can see velvet still attached to the droptine.
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Post by: fishing is for fools on September 11, 2008, 05:06:44 PM: that would be a fun one to cape out
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Post by: markts on September 12, 2008, 06:48:26 PM: I stand corrected :dunno:
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Post by: robb92 on September 12, 2008, 10:31:05 PM: One for the wall!!