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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Gobble on November 20, 2008, 01:50:37 PM

Title: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: Gobble on November 20, 2008, 01:50:37 PM: Look how dark the antlers were on the Whitetail I shot during the late hunt this year, they were splotchy and almost as dark as a Blacktail.

The area we were hunting is thick like the westside (just south of Colville) Kind of weird, most of the WT I have shot had light colored horns.
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: BONE COLLECTOR on November 20, 2008, 02:01:21 PM: I LIKE THEM DARK...WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WAS RUBBIN ON TO GET THEM THAT COLOR?
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: archery288 on November 20, 2008, 02:01:59 PM: I have been over whitetail hunting the past week and half and have seen quite a few bucks with chocolate antlers like that!! They look good dark!
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: Gobble on November 20, 2008, 02:05:19 PM: Quote from: BONE COLLECTOR on November 20, 2008, 02:01:21 PM
I LIKE THEM DARK...WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WAS RUBBIN ON TO GET THEM THAT COLOR?

I don't know, Cedar?
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: croix on November 20, 2008, 02:10:17 PM: If the rut was on, maybe a doe stopped short. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: bucklucky on November 20, 2008, 03:52:31 PM: Do you have a picture of them antlers dry? Looks kind of wierd.
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: Antlershed on November 20, 2008, 04:11:07 PM: His left side looks more like elk coloring with the ivory tips. :dunno:
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: Gobble on November 20, 2008, 04:19:49 PM: Quote from: bucklucky on November 20, 2008, 03:52:31 PM
Do you have a picture of them antlers dry? Looks kind of wierd.

No I don't. They look like the color of a Rosie Elk rack
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: snipekillr on November 20, 2008, 04:25:06 PM: Thats crazy
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: fc2038 on November 20, 2008, 04:35:49 PM: That is a cool lookin color. I like that
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: deaddog on November 20, 2008, 04:40:24 PM: Quote from: croix on November 20, 2008, 02:10:17 PM
If the rut was on, maybe a doe stopped short. :chuckle:
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: Palmer on November 20, 2008, 07:59:58 PM: Chocolate brown antlers are from rubbing the pine trees and maybe eating them too. A taxidermist was telling me this.
These bucks were rubbing pine trees and surrounded by pines.
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: PolarBear on November 20, 2008, 08:03:31 PM: Just about every one of my whitetails have dark antlers. I only hunt heavy timber and thick brush so the antlers tend to be darker than the deer from open sage, grass or wheat fields. Fir and pine seem to give them a nice chocolate brown while cedar gives them a little reddish brown.
Title: Re: Dark Whitetail antlers
Post by: Palmer on November 20, 2008, 08:12:00 PM: Here are some with lighter antlers where there are pines. There are also tamarak and fir.