Abnormal deer in the herd.
Went hunting lastnight and had 6 young bucks pass by my stand. The first two bucks were good looking, they are potential monsters someday. The next buck to come by had a really nice left side, he already had four or five inch long brow tines perfectly matched and a main frame eight on the left side. On the right side, besides that matching brow, was just a single tine sticking straight up with a couple kickers. My thoughts were to harvest the deer just to get rid of those bad genes, but then I thought that maybe he had just injured it during growth or maybe was injured when he was a yearling. Well I passed on the deer and let him live another day, hoping that it was just an injury during antler growth. Did I make the right decision or is the deer genetically messed up?