B.C. 4-point mulie discussion

[brotherjack]

I saw many 3 pt bucks this year with huge bodies, doesn't mean they are not going to develop into a 4pt. Simply means that young deer are over developing bone due to great conditions,

The one I commented on earlier was NOT a young deer with oversize antlers; this guy was absolutely huge in every way - bases on his antlers as big around as my wrist, a spread out twice as wide as his ears, and if I'm any judge of body size, he'd go north of 350lbs - this deer was as big as a small elk. The 4x5 170 class I shot 4 hours later was smaller than this 3 point I'm talking about...

 

[open-sights]

There is no doubt that there are some genetic retards around that will never develop 4 points, I was just offering an explanation on the mass quantity of sub 4 pt's around this year, sounds like the one you saw might be a revert - gone past his prime and no longer developing the way he once did. Or he coulda just hooked his nuts on a barbed wire fence at some point in time and is secretly laughed at from long distance by the other bucks.

 

[brotherjack]

There is no doubt that there are some genetic retards around that will never develop 4 points, I was just offering an explanation on the mass quantity of sub 4 pt's around this year, sounds like the one you saw might be a revert - gone past his prime and no longer developing the way he once did. Or he coulda just hooked his nuts on a barbed wire fence at some point in time and is secretly laughed at from long distance by the other bucks.

Yeah, I do agree for sure, antlers were definitely big for body size this year in the Kootenay's on all antlered species. I got a 6x6 elk that was not that much bigger in the body than my 4x5 170 class mule deer.

I don't know if this guy I saw was regressing or not - my impression of him was that he was still very much in his prime - he had a dozen does with him, and he was actively chasing off smaller deer who tried to get close to them.

Anyhoo...