I am not sure if this is from the wound. Don't they often times favor sleeping on one side which in turn allows more blood flow to one side of antlers? Could this be the only reason the one side is a little taller? I don't know. Just going off some stuff I have read.
That's news to me. Interesting...
Fuggin Phil is becoming a regular old Dr. Deer of late. He's the Dr. Phil Potterfield of all things deer!!! lmao
Fuggin Phil is becoming a regular old Dr. Deer of late. He's the Dr. Phil Potterfield of all things deer!!! lmao
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Want to kick me in the ass now or later.. :smiley_blackeye: :smiley_blackeye:
These two pics are on the same day but a year apart..
When I originally posted the pic last Friday I was looking at them on my laptop outside and he looked bad. Sat in my craw all weekend. The last set I posted today I said he didn't look so bad but was still on the weak side. I was getting ready to reply to you above and thought for a sec. Went back and looked. SHIT. His right side has always been weaker. :smiley_blackeye:
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It's true. That's one theory of why one side has a tighter curl and isn't as developed.. I say they're like tits. Right handed chicks have a bigger right tit. lmao
Can't believe I've never heard that. Very interesting. Does that also explain why one nut always hangs lower TOO?!? lmao
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Good points guys.. Here is kind of my line of thinking.. If it was a natural reason he got messed up be it busted tines or bad genetics, I would not shoot him, or I would leave it be. But in my eyes this is a little different. Sure, altering him us unnatural, but so is how he got that way.. Basically, I don't see a hunter fixing it any more different than a hunter messing it up. Both are unnatural. If I didn't have a history with him, If I didn't let him walk last season I wouldn't even shoot him this year. He would just be another one that didn't make the cut. He's never going to be hanging at the deer and turkey expo, he'll never be at some dog and pony show, and he'll never be put in a book. he'll simply be on my wall.. And when I look at him and think back of the story of how he fell I want to see him for what he should be if bubba didn't wound him. But you raise a very good point Sean. IDK maybe I'm crazy. Never would have thought I would even think of altering a deers rack. Maybe I won't.. We'll have to see. I may mount him and see if it continues to stick in my craw later. Maybe it's a what it is vs a what it should be.
Like this deer this year. I wouldn't shoot him. He'll never be anything. And I would never shoot him and get the opposite side matched. That's just how he is. Even if he was wounded I wouldn't shoot him and get that side fixed. I have no history with him an he's just another jacked up deer. But when I look at the tall 8. I want to look at him for what he should be before bubba jacked up his right side.
He looks like one of mine, but this guy has looked like this for two years running, I think he is handicrippled
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Maybe so. I sleep on my left side a lot and. . . .well, I will let you fill in the rest!:smiley_crocodile:
Joe, that buck has one hell of a frame no matter what his right side looks like...start at his bases and go up the brow tines and just look at the way that rack opens to the sky.....
He's awesome just how he is.
He's awesome just how he is.
I've had 2 mounts that I had my taxi fix tines on. Both of those deer I had watched for quite awhile, multiple seasons actually. The one I got opening morning of Bow season in 05 and he had a G-3 busted that was there just 2 days prior. The other one I got during gun season and he also had a G-3 busted half way up. Both these deer were fixed and still look great today. I dont regret doing it and I still have the harvest photos beside them and I usually get remarks from people that say "I woulda never known". I do have a couple other mounts that have a broken tine that I chose not to fix mostly because I never had a history with them.
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Oh trust me I get it.. Realizing now that his right side has always been a little weaker I don't think I'll get him fixed. It is what it is. Must just be weaker this year than in years past. But he did put on some good Mass.
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Nope. But if he acts the same as he did last season it's pretty good odds. Even though I'm not counting my chickens just yet as anything can happen. The wide 8 is very killable though. That dude wanders around in the daylight and can be found in the same field corner every night. Now tank. That fugger is around but a ghost.
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