2013 Top Inventory From One Property

Just an old Wildgame Innovations 5.0 megapixel. I tried a newer camera and hated it.

He's come a long way in two years' time. Below are two videos of the same three deer in 2011 and 2012. The oldest one is the hard-horned buck in the first video. He wasn't anything impressive then -- lacking on main beams, tines, and spread.

2011:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPcwFiLZBw


2012:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpcTQu-cMrk (fixed bad link)

Even at 4 1/2 years old, that first buck in the 2013 compilation video just can't seem to gain any tine length.

I understand where you are coming from, and I usually can't see it myself when other people post pics from year to year. But, I get hundreds of videos of these same three deer year after year, along with quite a few others on that farm, and can see certain traits in the racks, among other things.

Take the biggest buck for example. He has good mass that goes up into his tines -- I have his left side shed from that hard-horned video. It's got good mass, but nothing else. He is always the first to get his winter coat, the first to shed velvet, and the first to drop his rack (he drops in December). You'll notice his up-turned main beams in all three videos. The ends of his beams always turn up like his G3's.

The first buck in the 2013 compilation has the same wide, tall rack every single year -- along with the same short tines. Look at him from the front in all three videos and you'll see the same basic rack in each.

The only way I know for sure that the second buck in the compilation video is the same is that these three bucks hang in a trio group each and every year. I have no reason to believe that another buck has replaced him

I can usually tell on my deer (I think), but what get's tricky is when you get more than 1 deer the about same age with similar genetics / racks.  Big 8's with upturned endpoints seem to be common on my parents' property I hunt, and some years it is tricky trying to decipher which 8 point is which.  The brow tines are sometimes very helpful...  some deer, one brow will be longer than the other year after year.  Others, one tine may be slightly crooked year after year.  One thing I do that helps me is I print off a few pics of each buck at the end of the year and put it in an old fashioned photo album.  It is easier for me to compare deer when I have the actual photos in hand, side by side.