I always wanted a Non Typical

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Timo

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And Sat Dec 1 I got what I asked for. When it happened all I saw was a glance... heavy horns and a drop tine on the other side.
Once he was down and I approached him did I realize how Non Typical he really was.

Nice mass on the one side and really deformed on the other.

On closer inspection what I
dismissed as "eye goop" turns out to be an antler
growing out of the bucks eye!

This will be a euro mount for sure just to showcase the oddity of the antler growth from out the eye.

It will be interesting when I skin the head out and look inside to see if any other points had grown from this one. Preliminary searching is finding something protruding from deep inside the ear.

Also right behind the drop tine is another point Approx 3/4" dropping towards the skull.

It's no trophy, but it sure has character,and not something you see every other day.
Any thoughts on why this occured ...of course I have my theorys but I would like to hear yours
Cheers
Timo

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Thats a great deer, deffinately a lot of character. I've been hunting the same chunk of property for deer now the last number of years....and finally bought it. 280 acres of deer heaven all for me. I've seen some great typical bucks every year, 140's-160's, and of course smaller ones, but nothing for big non typicals. This fall I saw a younger buck with quit a bit of extra "junk" on his rack so maybe in 3 or 4 years if he's still around he'll still have it....I'd love to get a nice non typ. Congrats on the neat deer.
 
As to thoughts of why it would grow the extra point from the eye like that...I'm no biologist, but I've read in the past that they'll grow like that if it had an injury there in the past.

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Also if a rack is significantly "weaker" or deformed on one side it may have had an injury to the opposite side of the body....so I've read (as mentioned before, I'm not a biologist) ;) lol Or it could just be a non-typ rack :D
 
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Cool deer, I shot one this year with a 5 point antler on one side with two tines broken off and a straight up fork on the other side.

BTW, where can you still hunt on Dec 1st?
 
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