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Post by Sasquatch on Dec 31, 2008 9:28:08 GMT -5
There seems to be a genetic quirk in some of the local bucks missing one brow tine. The man that owns my hunting ground shot a nice nine a few years ago that has no brow tine on the left side. This summer my trailcam caught this buck:  A few days ago the landowner found a different small buck dead. It was also missing a brow tine. Back in Decatur where I used to hunt a lot of the bucks had one long sticker on one of their bases. Any unique traits in your area? |
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Post by danf on Dec 31, 2008 10:38:05 GMT -5
Dad's been slowly getting rid of the "bad" traits for years.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D A lot of the ones he's been "culling" have had severely mis-matched antlers- a spike on one side, 3-4 points on the other seems to be the common "theme" if you will.... The buck he took this year had a single spike on one side, and a "glob" of stickers on the other with no real main beam. |
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Post by vortex100 on Dec 31, 2008 11:57:32 GMT -5
In my area it seems to be tall and long beams. Their not wide and mass is okay, but could be better. I shot a 9 last year that the G2 and 3's 11 and 10 inches that scored 142. That buck was a main frame 8 with the ninth point only being a couple inches. My problem is that I can't seem to get any deer over 8 or 9 points. I passed on all the bucks this year so hopefully next year I will get a least a 10 point, but nothing is wrong with a big 8.
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Post by mullis56 on Jan 1, 2009 15:09:44 GMT -5
One split G2 is very common in my area.
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Post by huxbux on Jan 1, 2009 16:09:46 GMT -5
Split brow tines seem to be fairly common in my area
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 1, 2009 16:33:21 GMT -5
"Dinky racks" in my area..... |
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Post by 3ptbuck on Jan 1, 2009 16:48:58 GMT -5
on my main property that ive hunted for 10yrs i have only seen one 1.5yr old buck with brows and almost all bucks top out at 8pts with no junk.
on my other property that ive hunted for 8yrs now, almost all bucks have both brows and nearly all bucks over 2.5yrs have 10pts with occasional kickers.
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Post by parson on Jan 2, 2009 13:53:42 GMT -5
I think that the dread invisibility gene kicked in where I hunted this season.
parson
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Post by tickman1961 on Jan 2, 2009 15:57:24 GMT -5
Genetics is hard to improve in a wild deer herd.......
Maturity (age structure) and nutrituion are the easiest to control...
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Post by indianahick on Jan 2, 2009 18:27:59 GMT -5
Where I hunted the last 3 years there seems to be two. One is that the right side is usually 1 or 2 point less than the other, and then there are some that go almost straight up, seldom go out past the ears, out a little then up and branch. Another place had a crab claw on the left side.
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Post by old3arrows on Jan 2, 2009 19:44:29 GMT -5
Just south of Atlanta in Hamilton County all the bucks that I saw harvested had small brow times.
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Post by hountzmj on Jan 4, 2009 18:18:47 GMT -5
Back in the mid '90s dad and I hunted a place that had a family of bucks with very white antlers.
--hountzmj
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 5, 2009 19:37:55 GMT -5
How about this for genetics! This is one from several years ago.  For the last few years, we have been trying to let the bucks grow up. We have been seeing and taking some nice ones. We don't have any dominant traits. We seem to have a little of everything, except spread. The biggest spread we have had for the last 5+ years has been 18" inside. |
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Post by lugnutz on Jan 5, 2009 21:25:33 GMT -5
Not sure if its a fact or not, but it does seem like the deer in KY have longer legs than the deer i hunt here does.
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Post by hunter7x on Jan 6, 2009 9:54:55 GMT -5
I have killed numerous does off of the same 280 acre farm over the last 18 years that have manes. Always thought I should have one mounted but I already have too many dead critters on my walls.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 
