Is this a penned deer?
11-02-2010, 09:40 AM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 120
If he was pen raised, then his winter foraging and survival skills may be low. So what would be worse, to die of starvation or a gunshot to the heart?
I'm not saying he won't do just fine in the wild (assuming he was pen raised), but certainly the odds are against him when competing against the "more experienced" deer.
I'm not saying he won't do just fine in the wild (assuming he was pen raised), but certainly the odds are against him when competing against the "more experienced" deer.
Couldn't have said it better, myself.
11-02-2010, 01:07 PM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: ILLINOIS
Posts: 1,207
The brows and drop tine look cut to me?
I think they're all cut, to reduce puncture wounds.
Usually they will cut them off completely.
Maybe this guy does'nt cut them off to show the rack on the deer for sale purposes?
I really don't know, but they all look cut to me.
11-02-2010, 01:16 PM
#26
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 74
it looks like something is distorting the pic, there just to flat and sharp to be cut, maybe the top of the tines where higher then the camera could take a pic of so the cam. cut them off in the pic? idk
EDIT:, after a closer look at the pic, it seems his main beams look cut also, the camera would go that low, so i have no idea. maybe track down the game farm that lost him and see if they cut the deers antlers like that
EDIT:, after a closer look at the pic, it seems his main beams look cut also, the camera would go that low, so i have no idea. maybe track down the game farm that lost him and see if they cut the deers antlers like that
Last edited by Jake95; 11-02-2010 at 01:18 PM.
11-02-2010, 03:32 PM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pulaskiville
Posts: 3,533
I have a friend that raises deer. He's got some absolute whoppers. He normally cuts the racks completely off the bigger bucks that he does not intend to sell that year. This year he had a typical 10pt that scored 160". It was gored by a small 4pt a couple weeks ago and died.
That's abotu $3k down the crapper for him.
I asked him and he's never "trimmed" antlers before...just cuts them off. His deer are like dogs for 8 months out of the year. From the time the velvet comes off until they drop, they are as unpredictable as any wild animal.
On a side note...you'd be surprised if you heard some of the places that he's sold deer to. He said that it's not unusual for him to open a magazine and see someone holding a buck that they shot...and the buck was running around one of his pens just a few months before. Damn shame, but he makes a nice chunk of change at it.
That's abotu $3k down the crapper for him.
I asked him and he's never "trimmed" antlers before...just cuts them off. His deer are like dogs for 8 months out of the year. From the time the velvet comes off until they drop, they are as unpredictable as any wild animal.
On a side note...you'd be surprised if you heard some of the places that he's sold deer to. He said that it's not unusual for him to open a magazine and see someone holding a buck that they shot...and the buck was running around one of his pens just a few months before. Damn shame, but he makes a nice chunk of change at it.
