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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Mallardmasher on May 24, 2018, 06:28:40 AM

Title: Maybe non-typical
Post by: Mallardmasher on May 24, 2018, 06:28:40 AM: This buck was injured last year, and the horn growth on opposite side of injury is weird
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: Mallardmasher on May 24, 2018, 06:29:46 AM: Another look
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: Dan-o on May 24, 2018, 07:49:21 AM: Interesting.

Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: millerwheeler on May 24, 2018, 09:19:24 AM: Maybe bad genetics :dunno:
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: Mallardmasher on May 24, 2018, 09:51:29 AM: Nope, great gene’s, young 5x5 last year, then hit by car in Dec, possible broke leg, healed and he walks on it but big knot, side that is funky, broke off when hit. He is only 3yo, same buck 16 days ago. See injury on foot, I have supplemented him since injury
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: nwwanderer on May 24, 2018, 12:15:18 PM: From looking at that foot in the last picture, this is a typical response. Going to be unusual at least.
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: fishnfur on May 24, 2018, 10:18:50 PM: 5X5 at two years old? With genes like that, I'd let bucks like that get to eight years old before hunting them, and then chase 'em with stick and string.

Can't wait to see him in late-August to see if the supplemental feedings made a big difference in mass. Thanks for posting!
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: Mallardmasher on June 08, 2018, 11:48:29 AM: June 6th
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: Mallardmasher on June 08, 2018, 11:52:38 AM: Wife said he gets to grow old.
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: fishnfur on June 08, 2018, 01:37:44 PM: She probably wants a deer with normal ears and normal rack. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: Mallardmasher on June 08, 2018, 04:08:44 PM: Really she probably does not want any more deer mounted. Critters take up all her wall space👍
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: caribou creek on June 15, 2018, 06:21:15 AM: It’s normal for the off side antler to get deformed when a deer has a leg injury.
There is a section on it in the book deer of North America
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: fishnfur on June 15, 2018, 03:58:42 PM: Quote from: caribou creek on June 15, 2018, 06:21:15 AM
It’s normal for the off side antler to get deformed when a deer has a leg injury.
There is a section on it in the book deer of North America

Who would have thunk it?
Title: Re: Maybe non-typical
Post by: trophyelk6x6 on June 15, 2018, 05:29:52 PM: this guy has been around for years on my property, we call him gimpy, use to be a nice big 3 point but he showed up a few years ago with a busted leg. The next year he gimped but got around great. His horns have been non typical and messed up on the opposite side for a few years now.