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EYE GUARDS
« on: June 17, 2008, 06:59:16 PM »
We have talked about whether to count them or not.  Some muleys and blacktails have them some don't.  Some have some phenomenal ones.  Almost all whitetails have them.  Some better than others.  Lets post some pics of some of the best eyeguards you have.  Racks taken, field photos, shed antlers, whatever you got.  If they have been on here before, don't fret, as we have lots of new members.  I'll dig out one of my all time favorites and mayb another one or two.   

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2008, 07:13:29 PM »
Can't wait!

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2008, 07:33:22 PM »
Here is my favorite set of whitetail eyeguards !!



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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 08:06:23 PM »
 :chuckle:

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2008, 08:12:41 PM »
Here is a 97 inch Washington antler.  This was a relative to one of the bucks 300 was after this winter.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2008, 08:14:18 PM »


This is one of those antlers you kind of need to get your hands on to get the real character of it. 

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2008, 08:15:36 PM »
Definitely visible!! Nice one ya got there Bone!
This one I posted in the photography section "Bruiser Blackie"
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2008, 08:26:51 PM »
here are some past deer i have shot......different types of eye guards that i have gotten through out the years......







and yet the biggest deer i have gotten yet, last years 2007 buck.........i like his eye guards.....






hope you all like, i had more, actually alot more but there all about the same....

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2008, 09:42:20 PM »
I went through some pictures and found these whitetails with unique eyeguards.

I shot this buck in 2001, his eyeguards are almost 8 inches long (one is forked).


Here is another buck with long eyeguards.


Here is a buck with long forked eyeguards.


Here are some bucks with strange eyeguards.






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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2008, 11:22:07 PM »
Not mine but its from washington.


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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2008, 05:57:16 AM »
I usually don't count eyeguards unless it's a whitetail. There MIGHT be cases where I would count them on a blacktail or a mulie but they would have to be exceptional. Just my 1/2 cent.
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2008, 06:17:51 AM »
Nice ones guys.   Thats a dandy buck Timber.  Love the close up where he is giving your camera a kiss.  Sort of like he knew he was going to be famous someday and wanted to say check out my eyeguard.  That last buck is a hawg.  Love those massive diggers.  Keep them coming guys.   

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2008, 09:03:11 AM »
thats a huge BT muleysniper! did you take those pics or someone else??

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2008, 09:09:01 AM »
Here is my late season Chiwawa buck from a few years ago with almost 4" eyeguards.


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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2008, 09:12:54 AM »
Nice deer congrats!!! Thanks for posting
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2008, 09:39:14 AM »
Wow....some good ones.  Timber you got a couple dandy's.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2008, 05:12:32 PM »
Did somebody say eyeguards...  ;)




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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2008, 05:24:25 PM »
Man Antlershed....what a monster...is that a WA buck?

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2008, 05:39:50 PM »
Yes it is. Killed by my great-grandfather in 1946. Here's the story I posted a while back.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,1203.msg11384.html#msg11384

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2008, 06:21:58 PM »
those are some great bucks fellas!

That is a sick monster antlershed!

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2008, 08:36:02 PM »
I thought maybe this buck would work for the eyegaurd post.  This is a Pic of my girlfiends' buck from last year.  Not too bad for her first buck. :IBCOOL:
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2008, 09:02:11 PM »
Here is another buck with some unique eyeguards. I don't know the history of this buck other than the fact that he hung on the wall in the Blue Cougar for years. He now hangs in our hunting cabin.


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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2008, 09:27:56 PM »
Here is my 2007 deer.
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #23 on: June 19, 2008, 06:16:56 AM »
Good stuff!!!! I have a comment for each one, but then the next picture comes up.  Exactly what I was looking for.  Awesome specimens everyone.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2008, 08:36:05 AM »
ah the blue cougar. What about the studs in the store do you think they are local.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2008, 09:14:20 AM »
Nice pics everyone...

I was happy with the split eye guard on this buck I shot during the late season of 2006. 

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2008, 09:07:58 PM »
Nice buck Flipper.

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What about the studs in the store do you think they are local.

I assume you are talking about the non-typicals in the General store, those are some dandies. I've asked the owner about them a few times, he doesn't know where they came from. I bet they are local bucks from the good ole days.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2008, 01:19:16 PM »
I found an elk shed that has a droptine eyeguard. The tine would have come town past his jaw line. I will have to take a picture of it.
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2008, 01:41:24 PM »
pm sent. 

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2008, 02:23:59 PM »
Antlershed....THAT IS my DREAM BUCK right there...I would have fullfilled my wildest Mulie buck dreams if I killed that buck with my longbow!!!!!!!!

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2008, 02:26:37 PM »
Here are some eye guards for ya.  I think I mounted this guy 4 years ago.


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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #31 on: June 21, 2008, 05:36:46 PM »
of course you guys have seen this guy.... but he had a dandy set...

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #32 on: June 21, 2008, 05:37:15 PM »
I loved the corkscew ones on this guy...

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #33 on: June 21, 2008, 05:49:25 PM »
ask washingtonmuley to post a picture of his brothers deer.....holy crap now those are eye guards, ill see if i can get him to post it.....

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #34 on: June 21, 2008, 07:53:45 PM »
I don't have them at home but maybe at work.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #35 on: June 21, 2008, 08:04:57 PM »
I don't have them at home but maybe at work.

well get em! lol......... :chuckle:

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #36 on: June 22, 2008, 11:31:44 AM »

Here is a "suburban blacktail" with some extra junk around his eyeguards.


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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #37 on: June 22, 2008, 11:54:06 AM »
ooooo that would be a nice one.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #38 on: June 22, 2008, 07:39:49 PM »
That's a dandy Chiwawa buck, wamuledeer! Congrats!
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #39 on: June 29, 2008, 07:12:21 PM »
Here is a little buck I saw yesterday. He's got a lot of eyeguards, especially for a young buck.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #40 on: June 30, 2008, 03:16:00 PM »
Nice Timber.   I hope we find this guy on our trip........(relative to him at least.....)

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #41 on: June 30, 2008, 03:37:52 PM »
Bridger???  where did u kill that Whitey?

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #42 on: June 30, 2008, 04:35:26 PM »
in the nine mile falls area
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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #43 on: June 30, 2008, 06:25:55 PM »
i dont have a pic but my dads budy has one that is like a big non typical eye gard with like 4 points off of it. its a shed from a blacktail.

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Re: EYE GUARDS
« Reply #44 on: June 30, 2008, 09:00:01 PM »
heres the biggest balcktail shed i got, has a nice eye gaurd on it

thought i'd copy the dew can thing :chuckle:

 


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