ORIGINAL: Hoyt_Viper
ORIGINAL: TEmbry
Im betting injury, but have been wrong before.
I also think culling management bucks in a wild scenario does absolutely nothing for the overall herd as an individual act except burn a buck tag for you. JMO, but if he has those genetics, you can rest assured many others out there have identical genetics to him.
Unless many neighbors got together in a wide area and unleashed wrath on "management" bucks, the population will never rid itself of these "bad" genes. Often times, cull bucks are taken when really all they had was a simply velvet injury.
I was not implying that I was trying to manage any particular herd. I was simply labeling him. You are absolutely correct about the many neighbors needed to have an impact on a successful wildlife management.
Maybe this was his daddy I took out last year! Or maybe its the water!!!!
I got this weird one 2 years ago. It's not the norm for my area, but I took him because I'd never taken a nontypical before.
