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02-09-2007 | 06:19 PM

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R.S.B.

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RE: PA Public land bucks, please post your pics!

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ORIGINAL: rybohunter

I get weirded out going to places that are known to be open land, but I don't know who owns it. I did that fairly often years ago, but I have a tough time bringing myself to do it anymore. I know some good spots I just don't have the guts to go and hunt. Plus a lot of times that land get HAMMERED.

These 2 bucks were taken from heavily hunted private ground, with all the surrounding ground also heavily hunted and mostly not posted.

That long brow tine on the one buck is probably the result of the buck injuring and splitting that beam while it was still in the early stages of velvet growth. I say that with some reservation though since this buck has a rather long brow tine on the left antler too. This could be just an odd antler configuration but I am leaning toward the injured beam being the most likely cause.

When a buck splits the beam it isn’t uncommon for it to then grow a double main beam though one beam frequently doesn’t get any points on it. I just had a rack in my hands today where the main bean was split early in the velvet stage and it grew a main beam with no points. The brow tine though had three points developed off of it.

R.S.Bodenhorn

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