Originally Posted by
BigBuck822
I have watched and seen young spikes just grow bigger spies every year from my trial camera. I think you made a good choice becuase what I have seen in my whole life is that if they are going to be a good deer they will be atleast a forkenhorn by the time they are a year and a half old. And it gave you some nice meat to!
I personally would love to see your sequence of consecutive year spikes. I don't beleive it for a second except for the occasional freak buck that has abnormal growth and those are typically deer that can't reproduce anyway due to faulty gonads, hence the abnormal growth. If you know that deer is a 1.5 year old there is no reason to think it will always be a spike. Shoot I've seen pics and dead buck fawns with 4 inch spikes still with mom. Now that tells me that fawn as excellent genetics and potential...... Ever think about those little runt kids you grew up with in grade school and by the time you graduated they were way bigger than you and could have kicked the crap out of ya (maybe not you but in general example). That essentailly is a spike. They are just younger 1.5 year olds that maybe were late born, had a ruff winter, less nutrition around for them, ect... In due time they will all grow to be nice mature bucks. Let em go so they can grow unless you are hunting for meat or that buck will make you a happy hunter, then have at er. WCL