year of oddball bucks........
hillbille
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most of the bucks I had on camera this year were odd numbered, one side more than other, 5pt, 7pt and one odd 7pt with a normal brow tine and the other browe tine had a kicker going out the front and one out the back. also had a large spike had to be close to 12 inches with browe tines, they were small only half inch to inch, but I have never seen a spike with brow tines. also had 2 large 6 points, one had to be 18 to 20 inch spread without any browe tines, neighbor got both of the 6pts. these are whitetails not the big muleys you all have out west. just seems to be the year of the odd ball racks........ also had a big buck with 4pts on one side and just a large spike on the other, and he was a big bodied deer, but weirdest rack I have ever seen
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There was a four point around my place that had antlers like an antelope. About 10” tall with a 1” sticker coming out from near the top.
The buck I shot this year would have had a really ice rack in a few years. Oh well, he may not have been around in a few years anyway. Had a main frame 5x5 but the brow tines were webbed and had 3 point on each, 1 1/2" eye guards growing on each side and an extra point off the right antler base. Folks around here would call that a 17 point buck, but the rack really wasn't very big. If I had seen him well enough to evaluate the rack I probably would have let him go just in case I ran into him in a future years. You don't see webbed brow tines like that very often.
These pics were all taken in November this year in same place. For sure the year of the odd rack. The spike looks like it's been caught in a wind storm. That last pic is the strangest deer in the lot......just kidding. I'm happy to see a fox showing up in the area.
we had a small spike like that last year susie, his horns were swept back like a surfer getting out of the water, we called him the hollywood buck, almost everyone in camp had him walk up withing shooting distance of him but we let him go, never saw him this year, don't know if someone else got him or he grew into one of our oddball racks this year..... did you get any of them??
I suspect that the bucks are becoming gay.
Seen some weird bucks running together like you guys describe and I suspect they have migrated in this area from Kaliforna and Fayetteville, Arkansas and are gay.
Had some odd balls a few years ago. Little 3X3's that turned into huage (3X3) 6 points.
The line eventually petered out, and haven't seen one in a racoon's age.
Had a button buck get tangled up in a fence last night. Jumped a cattle panel. He got a rear leg through one of the top holes. Snapped the bone, leg wrapped around the fence.
I debated just shooting him. But, with my two youngest daughters watching, I called the Game Warden. He said if I wanted to butcher it, just shoot it and he'd drop off a tag later. Or, we have a county park with 2 injured eagles in our county, and that they'd like it for the eagles.
Daughters said they'd rather shoot their own, and love the lady with the eagles, as she puts on a lot of outdoorsy classes every year.
So the Game Warden came and shot it in the head with a solid copper projectile shell from a buckmark pistol. I helped him load it in his truck, and away he went.
None here on the farm. Got a young buck in Mark Twain National Forest where extended family sets up camp and hunts. Deer are slowly moving back into the farm so trying to build herd and trophy bucks.
I call him the "Comb-over" buck.
That one pic is a jackelope
You don't happen to live near a Comm Ed nuke plant do you?