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Title: Whats your favorite Antler (Buck) Attribute
Post by: boneaddict on February 01, 2025, 06:12:37 AM: (https://hosting.photobucket.com/68034e43-19b7-4de3-9566-c3ba9c52d3f8/61d9a8c6-0dd5-4415-9a43-fa5f685f7487.tif)
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on February 01, 2025, 06:16:20 AM: It's all about mass Baby!! :chuckle:
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Post by: Griiz on February 01, 2025, 06:31:54 AM: Mass, uniqueness and trash
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Post by: The scout on February 01, 2025, 07:40:15 AM: Mass, width and tine length are great but I’m a sucker for mass if I have to pick one
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Post by: bearhunter99 on February 01, 2025, 08:20:16 AM: I too am a sucker for mass

But also anything with character too. I’ve passed up bigger bucks for one that has some oddness or character.

Then wished I had shot the bigger buck when the oddball eluded me.

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Post by: C-Money on February 01, 2025, 08:35:50 AM: I really like TALL bucks...throw in some mass, and oh my!! Its easy to admire any rack/antlers, they all have good qualities and uniqueness that make them special.
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Post by: kellama2001 on February 01, 2025, 09:25:48 AM: The trashier the better for me :tup: I'm a sucker for unique weirdos :chuckle:
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Post by: LDennis24 on February 01, 2025, 09:37:30 AM: Is that a new 2025 pic of that old boy!? You have history with that buck!
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Post by: trophyhunt on February 01, 2025, 09:41:00 AM: Mass all the way! But eye guards are a must for me, passed up a 4 point blacktail a few years ago because he didn’t have any eye guards. Now to be honest, if he had mass, he would have died that day.
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Post by: Twispriver on February 01, 2025, 10:15:56 AM: I primarily hunt deer so I can eat them but my favorites are always those that have a little character. I really like dark colored antlers - especially in rosies and blacktails.
Oh..... And wicked eyeguards
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Post by: ghosthunter on February 01, 2025, 10:31:35 AM: In WA anything above the hair. 8)
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Post by: kentrek on February 01, 2025, 11:37:12 PM: Beading above the g1
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Post by: bearpaw on February 02, 2025, 03:55:22 AM: That is a very unique buck in the photo! :tup:
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Post by: chukardogs on February 02, 2025, 10:29:54 AM: If I had to put them in an order of importance, meaning before the safety comes off. I need to see heighth and mass. If that's there and my adrenalin gets to flowing, then I like to see something that doesn't look like the norm. I'm always looking for the oddball. In the early 2000s, I chased a crab claw buck for 4 years. His forward forks were palmated with forks at the tips. I hadn't seen anything like this on the hill before. My first experience with him was one of those where I was positive I had him when he stood up. I watched from 4 hundred yards or so as he and a couple does come into the head of a canyon and laid down in a bunch of blow downs. I could see his antler tips above the blow downs and I snuck to within about 100 yards. All I had to do was wait until he stood up. At that time he was 22 to 24 wide, fairly heavy and tall with both fronts being 2 to 3 inches of palmation before the forks and 2 to 3 inch tines. Over the next 4 years, I got quick glimpses of his butt and horns through the timber. My last experience with him was a few hour tracking job in slushy snow where he and 2 does, caught me stupidly kneeling in a wide open bowl looking at tracks. They were standing on the other side of the bowl back in some old growth Ponderosa's at about 100 yards watching me. My last look at him was his head and horns, that were now massive, 26 to 28 wide, with fronts that had 5 to 6 inch palmations and 6 inch long tines, above the two does backs. I seriously thought about trying that shot but held myself in check. The next year, I spent the entire season in that canyon and saw no sign of him.
Mass, heighth and trash! Yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
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Post by: JakeLand on February 02, 2025, 04:35:20 PM: Cheese grater bases and eye guards get me !
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Post by: Born2late on February 02, 2025, 05:17:07 PM: Quote from: JakeLand on February 02, 2025, 04:35:20 PM
Cheese grater bases and eye guards get me !
Do you mean like this?
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Post by: JakeLand on February 02, 2025, 06:41:11 PM: You F’en know it bud !!!
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on February 03, 2025, 05:12:29 AM: Not a fair poll.........Its like Ice cream........IMPOSSIBLE to pick your favorite flavor.... :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on February 03, 2025, 06:15:27 AM: Well Chris then pick neopoliton :chuckle:
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Post by: boneaddict on February 03, 2025, 07:12:29 AM: checks a couple of boxes

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Post by: chukardogs on February 03, 2025, 08:03:03 AM: A buddy in the Okanagon killed a buck years ago that had a perfect four on his right and the left was just a round mass above his burr, about the size of a grapefruit. It would be interesting to see if buck's like these are similar year after year or if something happened when the burr was developing and the next year, they're just a meh' normal, ho hum everyday 4?
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Post by: LDennis24 on February 03, 2025, 08:17:33 AM: What about this goofy guy from Tiktok
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Post by: jasnt on February 03, 2025, 08:22:45 AM: I love base points something about those little points coming out of the base cap. Mass and height are nice too
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Post by: OutHouse on February 03, 2025, 09:30:09 AM: I love eye guards. I love em' even more when they are on a mule deer.
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Post by: kellama2001 on February 03, 2025, 09:35:55 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on February 03, 2025, 07:12:29 AM
checks a couple of boxes

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Yes please!! :drool:
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Post by: Rugergunsite308 on February 03, 2025, 11:28:57 AM: I pondered this vote for a long time and realized that my favorite attribute wasn't on list. LOCATION is my favorite attribute. I have a one square mile area that I have hunted for the last 17 years. The smallest 3 pt buck I shot their means more to me than any single deer I've killed anywhere else. There is just something about killing a deer in a spot that you know like the back of your hand and outsmarting the deer and other hunters. :dunno:
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Post by: elkrack on February 03, 2025, 11:58:58 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on February 03, 2025, 07:12:29 AM
checks a couple of boxes

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That buck looks old!
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on February 03, 2025, 03:08:29 PM: Tough poll.....

I love mass. But looking a rack without eyeguards is like looking at a rack with pasties. It just isn't complete.
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Post by: bearpaw on February 03, 2025, 03:24:39 PM: tough to pick just one, but if I did it would probably be trash
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Post by: trophyhunt on February 03, 2025, 04:05:23 PM: Quote from: blackveltbowhunter on February 03, 2025, 03:08:29 PM
Tough poll.....

I love mass. But looking a rack without eyeguards is like looking at a rack with pasties. It just isn't complete.
Agree!!
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Post by: kodiak06 on February 03, 2025, 04:29:52 PM: I like several things but the split G1's are cool on a mature whitetail
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Post by: Angry Perch on February 05, 2025, 09:57:56 AM: I love trash, but without mass it just doesn't cut it. So mass it is.