Whats your favorite Antler (Buck) Attribute

[boneaddict]

[Skyvalhunter]

It's all about mass Baby!!

[Griiz]

Mass, uniqueness and trash

[The scout]

Mass, width and tine length are great but I’m a sucker for mass if I have to pick one

[bearhunter99]

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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[C-Money]

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.

[kellama2001]

The trashier the better for me  I'm a sucker for unique weirdos 

[LDennis24]

Is that a new 2025 pic of that old boy!? You have history with that buck!

[trophyhunt]

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. 

[Twispriver]

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
 

[ghosthunter]

In WA anything above the hair.

[kentrek]

Beading above the g1

[bearpaw]

That is a very unique buck in the photo! 

[chukardogs]

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.

[JakeLand]

Cheese grater bases and eye guards get me !