Never seen a rack like this before...heads up, dead bloody deer in photos...

[OverUnder725]

Came across a hunter who had just bagged this guy. left horn has grown backwards and is pushing on the top jaw of the deer. I could not get my finger in between the end of the horn and the jaw. Definitely some thing I've never seen before. And yes it is real, not loose on the head or anything.

 

[Tenguns]

Looks painful! Probably put the poor guy out of an early, miserable death.

 

[sigrunes]

That is one ugly sum b!tch.

 

[OverUnder725]

Yup. likely wasn't to pleasant to have that going on. Would make an interesting skull style mount though.

 

[nowarningshot]

Not a particularly old buck. If i was to guess, i would say some sort of traumatic injury when the horn was just forming, twisted the root and misdirected the direction of growth.

 

[Belzebuth666]

Seen one like that, but the antler was loose but still attached to a bit of broken skull, must have had killer headaches...

 

[trevj]

Not a particularly old buck. If i was to guess, i would say some sort of traumatic injury when the horn was just forming, twisted the root and misdirected the direction of growth.

That would be my bet too. Clipped by a truck, or walloped by a fellow buck while the antlers were still forming up.

I have a WT rac that came off pretty much the largest bodied WT Deer I had ever taken, and it fits nicely in a shoebox, but it wasn't a self-piercer, for all that it's ugly!

Neat trophy!

Cheers
Trev

 

[VanIsleCam]

Poor faccker you did him a favour by harvesting.

 

[hollowedpoint]

Ouch what a poor buck! I'm sure we all kow the feeling of tooth aches or anything related!

 

[1899]

How are his testicles?

 

[Magellann]

Ive seen one similar, but not to that extent before. Some bucks grow some crappy looking racks.

 

[KRJ]

I have seen this sort of thing in cattle. Never in deer

 

[BigBore585]

I saw a buck just like that a couple years ago just south of Calgary. Very odd Antler growth.

 

[1899]

Back in the old country they say an injury to the testicles can cause hormonal issues which lead to very odd or malformed antler growth.

 

[Price449]

Wow. Cool post

 

[SteelCap]

How are his testicles?

There's a correlation?

 

[skoal]

Saw a wt one time that one side was normal but the other side was rotated 90° to the back.

 

[Hunter1970]

I've seen one that was dropped down on the one side, and angled inward, almost into the eye of the animal. Strange stuff. I wonder, presuming the animal lived, would the following year's regrowth would be abnormal as well?

 

[1899]

There's a correlation?

Yes, I understand from talking to game rangers back in the old country that damage to a buck's testicles can cause hormonal disruptions which lead to gimped antler growth.

 

[nowarningshot]

Yes, I understand from talking to game rangers back in the old country that damage to a buck's testicles can cause hormonal disruptions which lead to gimped antler growth.

So that is the explanation for Justin...hmmm