Weirdest Deer
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squeeeeze
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That is pretty odd and crazy.
Here's my oddest buck I've seen. Little Coues whitetail buck. Guessing damage on his right side when he started growing. When I first saw him I thought his ear was straight down and hurt, but as he turned I saw it was a club through my binos. After the shot he ran through a bunch of mesquites and trashed his velvet on his normal side
Here's my oddest buck I've seen. Little Coues whitetail buck. Guessing damage on his right side when he started growing. When I first saw him I thought his ear was straight down and hurt, but as he turned I saw it was a club through my binos. After the shot he ran through a bunch of mesquites and trashed his velvet on his normal side
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Sqeeeeze I have seen irregular racks but that one takes the cake!
@ElCidAviator if that buck still has that crazy looking rack next year I would take it out of the gene pool
@ElCidAviator if that buck still has that crazy looking rack next year I would take it out of the gene pool
mongo4567
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I have seen two stag bucks: whitetails that never progress past velvet in horn growth. I took one and a buddy took one. Usually they are missing a testicle or two.
birddog 68
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It's possible that the pedicles (where antler grows from) were injured. Maybe when dropping last year's rack? If they ain't got a clear area to grow from it'll grow around injured area and look funky but it's normally just one side.
ElCidAviator
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Great question, I assumed he was a buck because; he had antlers and was in a bachelor pack with two other spikes, but he definitely could be a doe growing antlers. I'll see if I can spot his meat and potatoes on the videos.
He'll definitely be taken out of the gene pool if we get the opportunity as he's a great candidate for my boys to shoot this year. This will be their first year hunting, so they just need a good, safe experience, where lots of learning occurs, not trophies. But, I do think he would make a really cool mount, just because of the uniqueness. There's just no need to keep him around with so many better looking spike bucks showing up this year.
I'm 99% sure he's a yearling, so no rack last year. Anything is possible, but the boys he's hanging out with are all spikes. I was thinking an injury as well, maybe he had some head trauma and lived? I'm imagining him running full bore head down into the side of a car as a young fawn and this is the result…lol.
Be sure to get pics for us.My son is grown and don't hunt anymore,go figure.
So I get to enjoy the smiles and adventures of others kids as they take animals.
Benhunting
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What does it Identify as? We just can't assume it is a buck anymore.
birddog 68
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It could be non binary whatever that is. I transferred a gun and in the gender section the choices were Female,Male and non binary? As far as I know God only made man and woman but I am fairly old.
No offense to any non binary people
No offense to any non binary people
Texas Speed Bump
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Here are my two contributions to the 'weird deer' photo contest. Both were killed by the same hunter on my lease (pictured with the Phantom of the Opera buck). The first pic is a deer we'd been watching for several years before Doc finally harvested him. The beautiful 8-point has a condition called "piebald" in which all or part of their hide exhibits a condition like albinism. It can even occur in reptiles.
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Ckgworks
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I'd take it out........I don't have any pictures of it because we only saw it once and it was before trail cameras but we had a very nice 3 point blacktail come through during rut. One side was a misshapen lump about 4" in diameter, the other side was a normal antler. My wife was hunting and didn't get on him quick enough and he disappeared. After that year we begin seeing bucks with one antler and a lump on the other- all on the same side. Now I have read genetics are passed from does, but have no idea how true that is. I'll stick to cleaning up gene pool until I know for sure! Although I'm not sure with blacktail how much control you have on the gene pool anyway. It's rare for me to see what I can say for sure is the same buck in consecutive years unless it's in the home field.
