Odd-ball rack on the property
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Northeast PA
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Odd-ball rack on the property
My brother and I were out on one of the peices near his house this weekend and we spoted an odd-ball rack buck. His left was a good sized 4 points. Nice tines and a decent spread. Spread wider than his ear to the side and probably ranging from 4'"to 6" for the secondary tines. Buton the right he only had a Y, maybe 3/4 the size of the left overall and the tine was maybe 3". We were wondering to ourselvesif it was a injury or maybe just a fluke in the growth. Still, considering his size I may just have to see about tracking him down this fall and trying for a conversation piece rack for my wall.
#3
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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RE: Odd-ball rack on the property
I've had a few that weren't very symetrical on the rack but on this one, if you only saw 1 side or the other you would think it was 2 different buck going by the rack, the difference was that big. That right side looked like half the mass of the left with the smaller spread and height and the fewer points. ( thing must walk in circles with the weight difference )
#4
RE: Odd-ball rack on the property
My brother come upon a fresh road-killed buck that weighed about 190 lbs and on the left side had a 5-3/4" brow tine, a G-2 that was 9-1/2" and 3 more points that were pretty darn impressive. His mass was equally impressive, I couldn't get my hand around the base. As far as spread he was somewhere around 3" past his ear, (it was kinda hard to tell that while he was dead) but I measured from the center point of his head to the widest part of his good side and I came up with 9-3/4" so I'm guessing he would've had 18" anyway.
Then the right side...
He had 1, yes I said ONE, "point" thatwas 12-1/2" long!!! and at the base was about half the diameter of the good side.
It was pretty cool, and like you said wayomic, I would've like to shot him and mounted him for a conversation piece!
Then the right side...
He had 1, yes I said ONE, "point" thatwas 12-1/2" long!!! and at the base was about half the diameter of the good side.
It was pretty cool, and like you said wayomic, I would've like to shot him and mounted him for a conversation piece!
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Western PA
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RE: Odd-ball rack on the property
those odd balls are cool bucks to see. My father shot one the other year alot like the one you are talking about. 4 beautiful points on the one side but the other side had a fork. the taxidermist told us it was caused by a injury on the opposite side of the body.It makes quite the conversation piecehanging on the wall.Massive deer it dressed out at 216. I attached a picture.
#8
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
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RE: Odd-ball rack on the property
Around here lots of deer have messed up racks, that is the good and bad thing about a great buck to doe ratio....lots of figting= lots of broken tines...3 deer that would have been in the Book but missed because of tine damage....but ILL TAKE IT!!
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