Any idea how the wound/injury was inflicted to his left leg??? Have you seen the deer many times? I'd LOVE to get a couple years on that guy!! He's going to be a great/unique trophy!

I have seen him personally only once. I watched him for about half an hour back in turkey season one morning. I have him patterned pretty well and he beds in the same spot every day I am pretty sure. I hope the neighbor lets him grow a bit more than this, because he beds on their ground and then comes over to ours to eat from our feeder. He has a pretty good limp, but seems to get around well enough to make it through last winter. I will be going over to the neighbors house next weekend I am over there to talk to them and gather their feelings on QDM, hopefully they will let this guy walk for another year or two.

I didn't know deer grew testicles from their head? lol

Best of luck to ya with the neighbors.

Looks like he had a tuff winter with the injury. He may snap out of it and be a big one in a year or two. Nice pic.

Non-Typical?

Ya think?

I have seen something simailar to this when I was hunting. I think that when a deer has suffered an injury I.E. the rear leg the antler growth on the same side of the body suffers. A friend of mine shot a 10 point a few years ago that had a great 5 on the right side but the 5 on the left was deformed. When we got to the buck we found the front left leg was about 5" shorter than the right, when the deer was processed we found that this deer was injured in the left shoulder. It was an old injury, my friend said you could not tell by the way the deer was walking. This looks as though it could be the same sort of deal. If I can find a picture I will post it!

I thought that an injury to the rear left would affect the RIGHT side antler--anyone else heard this before?

jsasker-
I was under the same impression...that injuries altered antler growth on the opposite side. Could be wrong...as I have been many times before.

Intresting buck thanks for sharing.