Weirdest Deer

[Bob Wright]

In my state, that is a legal deer.
FYI, deer/elk can injure the racks and repeat that same injury for a few more years. The brain remembers it somehow. Learned this from a book I bought "deer of the southwest".
They can also sprout new pedicles where injuries have occurred. Rare occasions can have antlered females, which are legal take here. Your picture (OP) is an interesting one.

 

[Texas Speed Bump]

Here's one more for your 'weird deer' files. We've been watching this buck for several years now but nobody's wanted to harvest him. You might be saying to yourself "I don't see anything odd about those antlers" and you'd be right. We named him John Holmes after the male porn star so if you're looking at the rack, try looking at the other end. This guy was always 'hanging out' and that's how we could most easily tell him from the other 8s (he's actually a 9). Doc (the guy in the previous pictures who harvested the piebald buck) talked to a wildlife biologist about John that he has a kind of disorder that keeps him from being able to retract his junk. He also said it makes him incapable of breeding so I doubt John will last another season. Just sayin'

 

[JustMe2]

We spotted this guy on our trail cameras. I've never seen any abnormality like this.

Do you know what would have caused this? Birth defect? Trauma?

Post up some pics of your odd ball deer.

If you let it mature, it will have a really wide rack.

 

[RYEWSKY25284]

We spotted this guy on our trail cameras. I've never seen any abnormality like this.

Do you know what would have caused this? Birth defect? Trauma?

Post up some pics of your odd ball deer.

It's a cross with a deer and a chupacabra.
Choot it! Keep the gene pool pure.

 

[RYEWSKY25284]

Here's one more for your 'weird deer' files. We've been watching this buck for several years now but nobody's wanted to harvest him. You might be saying to yourself "I don't see anything odd about those antlers" and you'd be right. We named him John Holmes after the male porn star so if you're looking at the rack, try looking at the other end. This guy was always 'hanging out' and that's how we could most easily tell him from the other 8s (he's actually a 9). Doc (the guy in the previous pictures who harvested the piebald buck) talked to a wildlife biologist about John that he has a kind of disorder that keeps him from being able to retract his junk. He also said it makes him incapable of breeding so I doubt John will last another season. Just sayin'

Here's one more for your 'weird deer' files. We've been watching this buck for several years now but nobody's wanted to harvest him. You might be saying to yourself "I don't see anything odd about those antlers" and you'd be right. We named him John Holmes after the male porn star so if you're looking at the rack, try looking at the other end. This guy was always 'hanging out' and that's how we could most easily tell him from the other 8s (he's actually a 9). Doc (the guy in the previous pictures who harvested the piebald buck) talked to a wildlife biologist about John that he has a kind of disorder that keeps him from being able to retract his junk. He also said it makes him incapable of breeding so I doubt John will last another season. Just sayin'

He belongs a someones wall.
He's nice enough .

 

[mrbb]

well here are two I watched grow up, the one with the left side messed up, the yr before i watched him get into a fight in Nov with a smaller buck and he broke off a its right side antler and a piece of its skull, at dark I climbed down from my stand and picked up the broken rack, with a bloody piece of skull plate attached to it
the following yr he grew this, he made it all the way thru velvet and into early OCT, hard horned and then he got into a fight again in front of me, and the lower section of the right antler broke off, so I have that
the second deer, not sure what happened, , I have seen many more like this(have pic's some place too of them too, just not handy)
it happens a lot more than you think
also a few yrs back now(like 20 yrs), had a deer that grew an antler into it eye and lost its eye due to it, he lived a yr or two after then IO gather someone shot it or got hit by a vehicle,a s never seen it again that following spring
a few others to see

 

[sp6x6]

Arrowed this odd ball

 

[sp6x6]

Also shoot 2 with double main beams

 

[sp6x6]

the other

 

[Texas Speed Bump]

He belongs a someones wall.
He's nice enough .

I actually thought I'd harvested him last year. Saw him on the hillside about 200 yds out but he walked behind some cedars before I had a shot. When he stepped out, I popped him but when I went to retrieve him, it was actually a different wide 8. I hate it when that happens.

 

[mrbb]

typically antlers that grow in weird ways are due ti injuries that happened to the animals OPPOSITE side, of the weird growing antler
many studies have been done on this to find this info too!
and injuries can be to any part of the body , not just its head!

 

[Ckgworks]

The bull elk in Western Washington that are suffering from hoof rot typically have a deformed antler on the opposite side the are limping on. We have a large herd near our home with hoof rot, I should try take some pictures but usually when looking at them I'm feeling sick and disgusted by the management, not in the mood of taking pictures.

 

[Varmiter71]

I have shot two weird ones.
One has a separate main beam and the other one had dried up velvet in November.
That one had an infection in its chest cavity but it was still chasing does.

 

[Rrpro]

Here's one i got with a muzzleloader around September 26 2018 when he went down he damaged the 3"drop and the velvet was soft and still bled i have never seen one before that wasn't dead however that same year about 5 miles from where I got him i saw another one similar but it had 2 main beams on one side and more mass with full velvet and points every where thatwasabouta week before the hunt. i call it a cactus buck. No nads on him