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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on January 25, 2025, 07:03:33 PM

Title: Kicker or Dropper
Post by: boneaddict on January 25, 2025, 07:03:33 PM: (https://hosting.photobucket.com/68034e43-19b7-4de3-9566-c3ba9c52d3f8/2f9b28d0-83d9-43a7-8de5-3c59deb992aa.jpg)
Title: Re: Kicker or Dropper
Post by: RightPlace-RightTime on January 25, 2025, 07:16:06 PM: Kicker
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on January 25, 2025, 07:32:47 PM: Not in the strike zone, kicker. Blackies/Muleys can have the weirdest racks.

This guys big side has a small eye guard, and the small side has big eye guard. Where’s the reasoning in that?🤯
Title: Re: Kicker or Dropper
Post by: NOCK NOCK on January 26, 2025, 05:47:11 AM: Quote from: Boss .300 winmag on January 25, 2025, 07:32:47 PM
Not in the strike zone, kicker. Blackies/Muleys can have the weirdest racks.

This guys big side has a small eye guard, and the small side has big eye guard. Where’s the reasoning in that?🤯

Drugs er bad Mkay. :chuckle:

I agree, they can grow some weird stuff,
Title: Re: Kicker or Dropper
Post by: Alan K on January 26, 2025, 06:40:31 AM: A lot of times antlers 'balance'. That is to say if tine length is longer on one side than the other, the smaller side would have a little extra mass, etc.

I'd imagine the deers body sends equal resources to its antlers during growth, but how that translates geometrically varies.
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Post by: High Climber on January 26, 2025, 08:13:39 AM: I would call that a kicker but wouldn’t judge you if you described it as a dropper :chuckle: Cool buck
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Post by: kellama2001 on January 26, 2025, 08:57:39 AM: I'd say kicker, but it's a super unique buck either way and a great photo. Thanks for sharing :tup:
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Post by: chukardogs on January 26, 2025, 12:20:53 PM: I call that a kicker. We had one on the mountain we saw in 2005 that had a sticker like that on both sides. We found the skull in 2010 and even though he had regressed significantly, he still had the two stickers on both sides.
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Post by: Twispriver on January 26, 2025, 12:36:33 PM: Drop kicker - Is it a kicker if it comes off the main beams and a sticker if it comes off the tines?
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Post by: boneaddict on January 26, 2025, 12:42:05 PM: That’s a twist. I think I think of them as the same except if it’s got some length a kicker and if it’s a ring only point then a sticker. Hmmmmm
Title: Re: Kicker or Dropper
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on January 26, 2025, 12:56:33 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 26, 2025, 12:42:05 PM
That’s a twist. I think I think of them as the same except if it’s got some length a kicker and if it’s a ring only point then a sticker. Hmmmmm

I never thought about kicker, and being different, but it makes sense.

I look at times drooping down as drop times.🤔
Title: Re: Kicker or Dropper
Post by: boneaddict on February 02, 2025, 06:25:16 PM: How about a kicker with a dropper(https://hosting.photobucket.com/68034e43-19b7-4de3-9566-c3ba9c52d3f8/f2192922-7b1e-433e-a594-a0e0f3632ee9.png)
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on February 03, 2025, 06:20:56 AM: Is that buck in velvet in the snow?
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Post by: boneaddict on February 03, 2025, 06:27:05 AM: In November, yes. Saw 6 in velvet last November(2023). Only saw 1 this year
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Post by: LDennis24 on February 03, 2025, 08:23:00 AM: Found a big dead mule deer buck in velvet still in December on the RR tracks outside the town of Marshall one year when I was a kid. Had about 14 points on each side with drops about 10" long and they forked almost like an upside down rack. It was all busted up but my buddy and I took it home and pieced it together to see what it looked like. It was unreal and had about 180" of antler and spread if it was to be scored. Probably would have scored about 100 typical though!
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Post by: mountainman on February 03, 2025, 08:41:08 AM: Kicker.

But wouldn’t pass a dropper either!😘
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Post by: highside74 on February 03, 2025, 10:11:50 AM: Kicker! I like ba ba ba ba bass bass bass. Man I dated myself. I swear I used to be cool.