Let's see the Ugly/Unusual Antlers!

Andy

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We've seen the nice ones - 8+ points, long times, thick, symmetrical. Let's see the others that are impressive for other reasons.

I was happy to get this guy, but this is the most unusual rack I've ever seen in person. It's a 4-Pointer, better called a "3X1". It would have been a magnificant 6-Pointer and a heck of a 2-Pointer ;) , but as it is, he was like the 1/2 man - 1/2 woman at the circus side-show. Still, he thought he was hot stuff, as he was working a scrape in the minutes before his demise.

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Here is one that RCG and I took in '04. The bullet hole in the ear is proof that someone else - and I now know who that fellow was - found this guy's headgear interesting before we came across him.
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[QUOTE='Boo]Here is one that RCG and I took in '04. The bullet hole in the ear is proof that someone else - and I now know who that fellow was - found this guy's headgear interesting before we came across him.
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He still haunts me:D
 
Andy said:
We've seen the nice ones - 8+ points, long times, thick, symmetrical. Let's see the others that are impressive for other reasons.

I was happy to get this guy, but this is the most unusual rack I've ever seen in person. It's a 4-Pointer, better called a "3X1". It would have been a magnificant 6-Pointer and a heck of a 2-Pointer ;) , but as it is, he was like the 1/2 man - 1/2 woman at the circus side-show. Still, he thought he was hot stuff, as he was working a scrape in the minutes before his demise.

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Andy...I can almost guarantee you that that buck had an injury on its left side(opposote side that the single tine is) do you remeber seeing anything out of the ordinary?
 
grouseman said:
Andy...I can almost guarantee you that that buck had an injury on its left side(opposote side that the single tine is) do you remeber seeing anything out of the ordinary?
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No - I don't recall anything unusual. You've piqued my interest - why do you say that?
 
grouseman said:
Andy...I can almost guarantee you that that buck had an injury on its left side(opposote side that the single tine is) do you remeber seeing anything out of the ordinary?
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That's true!! .... I shot this one on opening day in 1999.

When I was cutting him up I noticed his rear leg on the left side was quite a bit smaller than the other.

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normally( and I can't explain why) when one side of a deer is injured the opposite side of the deers antlers are abnormal...take for example this buck that lives on an island near thunder bay( no hunting) one yr it had a beautiful symmetrical rack, he was an all around nice young buck. later in the winter around late Dec, he was hit by a vehicle, but only his left leg was injured, it was actually pretty gross to see him hobblying around on it, but he survived the winter. next spring a friend of mine( I think he belongs to this forum as well) was at the island and took pictures of this buck in velvet and in bone and you can distinctly see an odd side to his rack...and guess what side its on? BINGO his right side( opposite of injury)
if you look close in both pictures, you can see the healed wound on the bucks left side on his hocks
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it kinda follows the same rules as people who suffer from strokes..if the stroke is sufferedd on the right side of teh brain, then the left side of the body will feel the effects....im not sure that makes sense but thats the extent of my knowledge
 
Is it me or does that Buck look wrong? They body on it looks weird. kinda looks like a cross between a cariboo and a deer..
 
SuperCub said:
That's true!! .... I shot this one on opening day in 1999.

When I was cutting him up I noticed his rear leg on the left side was quite a bit smaller than the other.

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I know the slang around the camps is to call them ' nuclear racks ' like the poor fella survived chernobyl (sp?):runaway:
 
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