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Title: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: boneaddict on March 12, 2008, 12:23:13 PM: Lets see them. No live pictures...they belong in the barely legal threads. Lets see headmounts and sheds.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...
Post by: Rick on March 12, 2008, 12:31:46 PM: IIRC I killed this buck the very first year of the 3pt minimum restriction. He was a big SOB,just lacking in the antler dept.

Inside spread is about 5 1/2" the rack is about 7" tall.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi188.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fz176%2FRpelletierjr%2F3pt.jpg&hash=f858840e3cdc387d0a91e1d61e94bf8656f5af78)
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...
Post by: saylean on March 12, 2008, 12:40:19 PM: My first deer using a bow...
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: boneaddict on March 12, 2008, 12:51:10 PM: perfect examples guys.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: quacker whacker on March 12, 2008, 01:11:06 PM: found this last week
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: wastickslinger on March 12, 2008, 01:29:44 PM: I might have the smallest shed!
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: Smokepole on March 12, 2008, 01:49:11 PM: I shot a tiny little basket rack up in the high country near Winthrop quite a few years ago. Symmetrical rack, but I salted it down on my tailgate and it disappeared. I think a dog ate it, or a coyote.

I always get too much blood on my hands for field photos, so you'll just have to envision it. :dunno:
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: boneaddict on March 12, 2008, 03:11:00 PM: Dang wastickslinger, that one will be hard to beat.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: wastickslinger on March 12, 2008, 04:46:47 PM: I always find the smalles sheds. I like them all though. They are all unique in some way or another. But I like the big ones better :chuckle:
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: Hunting Cowboy on March 12, 2008, 05:21:12 PM: My dad about 30 years ago and one of his blacktails. Sorry for the poor picture!
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: Wea300mag on March 12, 2008, 06:23:34 PM: I hate to admit it but you guys are in my wheel-house now.

Here's a 3pt whitetail with a B & C score of 34-2/8. The first is of it hanging and the second is just the massive rack. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: 50CalJim on March 12, 2008, 06:55:40 PM: I was beginning to think that you haven't harvested a deer before. :ass:
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: Smokepole on March 12, 2008, 07:31:27 PM: Here's a little whitey my nephew shot last season. Found him eating apples. He's got a small little 3pt rack, and a neck as long as a giraffe.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: jackelope on March 12, 2008, 08:59:33 PM: that is bizarre, duck. awesome keychain, though. i can say i've never thought of making a keychain out of a shed antler.
i've got to go find my camera.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: boneaddict on March 12, 2008, 09:02:38 PM: I've had one for 15 years. They hold up quite well.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: jackelope on March 12, 2008, 09:07:06 PM: is it a whole antler though?
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: boneaddict on March 12, 2008, 09:11:19 PM: I cut the burr off. Its what we call a spooner. I'll have to get a pic. It was about a 4 inch long 4 point. Smokepole would call it the smallest pisscutter moose he'd ever seen.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: jackelope on March 12, 2008, 09:32:25 PM: well...here is the slammer buck i killed a few years ago. he has an outside spread of 9" and is about 9-10 tall. he is a last day buck i killed to hang on the wall in the garage. i took him off the wall to get pictures of the mount that would do him the proper justice.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi79.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj139%2FBAILEYDAD%2FP1000702.jpg&hash=6546e9758eda8c31564e5568e86195a4cad6ff15)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi79.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj139%2FBAILEYDAD%2FP1000703.jpg&hash=d7a1ebda9785f6717c722e73f9a3305aa0529168)
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: Smokepole on March 12, 2008, 09:37:00 PM: You guys are making me feel bad. This is supposed to be for small deer. Heck most of these I would have caped out for a shoulder mount. They're museum grade bucks in my book. :drool:
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: boneaddict on March 13, 2008, 09:15:46 AM: I've got one for you smokepole. I'm sure I saved the rack, but I'm dang sure I buried it at the bottom o fthe pile.
Title: Re: Smallest legal (three point or better) Branched antler bucks...shot
Post by: DeKuma on March 13, 2008, 10:37:36 AM: Quote from: jackelope on March 12, 2008, 08:59:33 PM
that is bizarre, duck. awesome keychain, though. i can say i've never thought of making a keychain out of a shed antler.
i've got to go find my camera.

I have been carrying an antler keychain off of the first deer I ever shot (at) since I was old enough to drive, so about 23 years....... I shot it but it ran literally into my brother. He finished it off at about 4 feet.