Huge Steuben County Buck???
11-25-2008, 11:29 AM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New York
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RE: Huge Steuben County Buck???
Boy just like that Cambell buck that buck didn't have much of a spread even if he had matching sides he wouldn't have been 15-16" wide. Had to be the sam gene pool. Any word of why he grew screwy horns? I bet injury to right rear leg area or something. i wouldn't have wanted to be another buck getting into a fight with him. I would have nicknamed him the bayonet buck
11-25-2008, 11:51 AM
#27
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Steuben County, NY
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RE: Huge Steuben County Buck???
My moneys onan injury to the opposite hind leg too.
Would love to see pics of the sheds. My uncle said that his buddy and kid didn't think that it was the same deer this year at first. They claim that he was a 175 class typical in '07. My uncle's seen/held the sheds and said they're really nice.
As you menioned,alot of thebigger buckstaken inthis area tend to have narrow 16-17" spreads with alot of mass.
Would love to see pics of the sheds. My uncle said that his buddy and kid didn't think that it was the same deer this year at first. They claim that he was a 175 class typical in '07. My uncle's seen/held the sheds and said they're really nice.
As you menioned,alot of thebigger buckstaken inthis area tend to have narrow 16-17" spreads with alot of mass.
11-25-2008, 11:58 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: New York
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RE: Huge Steuben County Buck???
I bet the sheds weren't from that buck, I can't bleieve that deer would have went from a 170 classtypical to that freak nasty with a hammer drop and stickers on that right side. A deer like that had to havehadtrash the year before too.
11-25-2008, 12:16 PM
#29
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Steuben County, NY
Posts: 354
RE: Huge Steuben County Buck???
I have no first hand knowledge of this deer, just going on what I've been told. But, I've seen where deer's racks (magazines mostly) have changed quite a bit from one year to the next, usually as they become "overly mature", which as you know doesn't happen very often here in the Finger Lakes Region.I think that it is very possible that it could be the same deer and that he sustained an injury that seriuosly altered his rack development.
11-25-2008, 12:30 PM
#30
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Steuben County, NY
Posts: 354
RE: Huge Steuben County Buck???
Here's a deer that I watched during the summers of '01 and '02. He went from a 140 class 10-pt. with a couple of small stickers to a 187 gross non-typical (2-3 small stickers broken off or he woulda went over 190) when my buddy killed him the following year @ 4.5 years old. I would have loved to have seen him get another year on him...
