We had a monster 8pt running around our area a few years back that I had seen several times then all the sudden he grew a 7in droptine his last year alive, like Angus' deer he was appx 5-6yrs old when it showed up.

Unfortunaly he was hit by a vehicle down the road from my house opening weekend of gun season that year. He was a brute, scoring 168 gross w/ 14in G2s and that 7in drop, he would have been a deer of a lifetime if someone could have tagged him.