Weird genetics?
12-04-2009, 03:09 PM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Iowa
Posts: 452
That is a really young deer. We have had one or two yearlings looking like that but they seem to have corrected themselves in subsequent years.
I don't know if it is genetics on your deer there or if it has to do with the nutrition factor; that can be what causes odd antler development as well.
Either way, he is either gonna be one great character buck in three years or a bruiser of a mainframe 8!!!
I don't know if it is genetics on your deer there or if it has to do with the nutrition factor; that can be what causes odd antler development as well.
Either way, he is either gonna be one great character buck in three years or a bruiser of a mainframe 8!!!
12-04-2009, 07:34 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Chippewa county, WI.
Posts: 2,646
Originally Posted by DVXDUDE
yup he's hurt. I bet it was a vehicle accident or bad shot. very typical, the rack is messed up on the opposite side of the injury.
12-05-2009, 10:24 AM
#6
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Central Nebraska
Posts: 184
Thanks guys I was thinking the same thing. My cousin was thinking about taking a friend there (he has used his 2 buck tags) and try to end his suffering. Do you think he will make it another year? If so I agree with IOWABUCKHUNTER that he is going to be a great looking deer with some sweet characteristics. Would you let him live another year?
12-05-2009, 05:18 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 297
It looks like the injury was sustained on his right hind leg, but it is weird because the rack is messed up on the right side (same side). I always heard that the opposite side of the rack would be messed up.
