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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on October 11, 2015, 12:56:35 PM

Title: Antler choices
Post by: boneaddict on October 11, 2015, 12:56:35 PM: Its really funny how Ill take a dark antler over a light antler everytime. Ill take mass over length, and Ill take gnarl or moss over just about anything.

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Post by: grundy53 on October 11, 2015, 01:02:17 PM: Same here.

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Post by: Wolfdog2314 on October 11, 2015, 01:04:11 PM: Love gnarley bases and mass. Especially on blacktails.
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Post by: fishnfur on October 11, 2015, 07:21:23 PM: I love those mahogany red versions on Blacktails. Gorgeous.

Hope you're hunting BoneAddict!
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Post by: bracer40 on October 11, 2015, 07:24:06 PM: Very nice photo.
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Post by: Bigshooter on October 12, 2015, 10:01:43 AM: I agree with you 100% bone.
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Post by: tgomez on October 12, 2015, 10:13:52 AM: Nothing like a dark rack with a ton of mass! :tup:
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Post by: no.cen.wa on October 12, 2015, 02:05:25 PM: Awsome deer, I like the dark horn too, so what do you think is the "biggest reason" for the difference in horn color?
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on October 12, 2015, 02:10:26 PM: Quote from: no.cen.wa on October 12, 2015, 02:05:25 PM
Awsome deer, I like the dark horn too, so what do you think is the "biggest reason" for the difference in horn color?
trees that they rub.
Title: Re: Antler choices
Post by: JJB11B on October 12, 2015, 02:16:37 PM: I was thinking that maybe the light antlered critters drank light beer, and the heavy massed dark antlered critters drank good quality craft brews!
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Post by: 7mmfan on October 12, 2015, 02:38:40 PM: Quote from: JJB11B on October 12, 2015, 02:16:37 PM
I was thinking that maybe the light antlered critters drank light beer, and the heavy massed dark antlered critters drank good quality craft brews!

Sounds reasonable
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Post by: hunterofelk on October 12, 2015, 03:23:41 PM: Long time ago, in Montana, I saw two mature mule deer bucks still in velvet. These deer were up about 9500 feet. One, a typical, had light brown velvet, the other a non-typical had darker velvet. I am not 100% sure, but I saw two bucks in December that looked an a lot like my two from late summer and one had light colored antlers and the other darker. They were down the main drainage from the high country with the does. I have seen deer from the Okanagon fire country with real dark, almost black antlers and they are my favorites.
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Post by: boneaddict on October 12, 2015, 06:44:33 PM: Pretty much what they are rubbing on. Sage, willows spruce pine etc.
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Post by: Band on October 12, 2015, 08:52:06 PM: I believe some elk antlers are dark at least in part due to digging up dirt with their rack and I wonder if bucks ever do this as well? :dunno:
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Post by: kellama2001 on October 12, 2015, 08:55:30 PM: I love dark antlers and character tines...the trashier the better.