my buddys cousin shot a buck on saturday.....the body was tiny....i lifted it off the ground by its neck myself and didnt have to strain myself and i have mono and am considerably physically weakend from it.....and we drug it up a pig STEEP hill without a problem....i KNOW it was a TINY body.....the rack is small....maybe 6 inch spikes...kinda curl another inch or 2 at the top...MAYBE 10 inch main beams MAX....right where they curve is a point on each side...maybe an inch long..and brow tines..ones a bump...ones maybe an inch max....i shot a 1.5yr old 6pt in the mountains a few years ago where the food sources are hard to come by and we have much better genes and nothing BUT food down here where she harvested that buck....GIANT corn fields all around.....acorns EVERYWHERE in the woods....hay fields.....a grain field across the road.....my buck in the mountains is considerably bigger...longer tines....actually spreads....and the mass is bigger....ive never seen antlers as thin as her bucks.....up the mountains we tend to have nothing but spikes and basket racks....a few live to be big but they still dont get HUGE.....they gain alot of mass but tines stay short and spread doesnt get huge...our 2.5yr old bucks down here in the farm land where she shot this buck are about as big as a BIG mountain buck with the exceptional monster....we have better genes and food down here...the teeth on her buck are REALLY sharp.....not worn at all.....i was thinking maybe this is its first year.....should be a button buck?..maybe born early and had time to grow the little rack with the good genes and all the good food it has?? is it possible?? i really think thats what this buck may have been....or maybe a REALLY late born fawn and hes only like 1.25 instead of 1.5yrs old?? can it be a yearling??? body was small....sharp teeth....and THIN tiny rack....what do you guys think??? i just cant see a 1.5yr old being THAT small in this area....good genes and more food then a deer can eat....most 1.5yr olds in the area are basket rack 8s....we see them and have taken many from this area....anyone know??

Maybe that one just fell out of the jene pool.
I just could be that one just don't have good genes it happens.

Just my 2 cents

Just like people deer get sick and some born with health problems. How old was your buddy ?? Was it his first deer

shes like 13 or 14...she was thrilled.....won a bet with her boyfriend and everything...she killed a buck last year.....a mutant....antlers grew straight back....maybe 4-5 inches long....nasty looking little things.....that things head was HUGE....never saw a skull so big....this is her first "racked" buck.....both years she thought they were does......luckily she can shoot either......i was with her this year....i didnt see the rack either.....between light fading, the antlers being thin and barellllllllly above its ears at all....and it snowing pretty good we both thought it was a doe....i was 20 yds away from her....doing a drive......just wondering if its possible for a first year buck to have a little rack instead of the typical buttons