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    San Angelo White Eyes..end of tale

    This buck was a buck I named White Eyes. I had him at no older than 3 1/2 the first year. I figured he'd be the next Big Baby 8. Same area, possible same genetic line. I had hopes of killing him this past year as a solid 140. Problem was, last year, after Thanksgiving, he disappeared. He was a regular at my road feeder and my brother's two feeders. Gold and Cindy even had him at theirs. He was a fine rascal. He was a home body and it was easy to let him go. He also loved the protein in the Boss Buck.

    Here he was in 06/07.

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    Here he is in 07/08 before his disappearance

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    #2
    pretty buck

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      #3
      so what happened to him???????????

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        #4
        Originally posted by crittergitter View Post
        so what happened to him???????????
        X2

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          #5
          Very nice

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            #6
            and................come on...................

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              #7
              Keep us hanging? LOL

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                #8
                Nice buck, but what happened?

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                  #9
                  Like I said, he was a regular home body. During the season, Dog surprised three guys on the ranch one evening. They were set up to "hunt" dogs supposedly. One was the rancher's nephew. They were set up in the home of White Eyes and another nontypical we named Heartattack Kid. It was at that time that both deer disappeared. We have no proof they shot them, but like they say on NCIS, they don't believe in coincidences. After a month of nonsigtings, we assumed the worse,

                  This past Saturday, I made a whirlwind trip to SA to fill feeders. It was going to be a month before I could go back, so it was something I had to do. I was alone, had just filled my Hilltop and River feeders and was getting ready to fill my Road Feeder and my truck wouldnt start. Camp is about a mile away. During my couple walks back and forth to try and coordinate an Onstar rescue and/or to find a battery or Polaris, I happened to walk by a patch of catclaw about 30 yards off our main road and there was a skull. I walked over to it and it was White Eyes' carcass. We had driven by him for over a year an not seen him. Best I could discern, he was probably shot off the road at a distance. Being poachers and not supposed to be in the ranch, I imagine they mismarked where he was standing and couldn't find him quickly. From past finds, we know that Pretty Boy was killed with a .223. Not a great round to break down such a big bodied deer. So, he laid there going to waste until I happened to walk by. At least they didn't get him.

                  Here's his skull. As an 8, he'd score 136 to 137, depending on which of the fork you called the main beam, and as a nine, 139. His H1's at the smallest spot were 4 6/8. He'd have easily been solid 40's the next year.

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                  Here's his jaw. It's been in the weather and the back molars are chipped. The wear shows not much more than 2 1/2 yo wear. NO more than 3 1/2. He's a 4 1/2 yo deer which goes with our wear records of being older than the wear shows. At least one year.

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                    #10
                    sad to hear! He was a nice deer!

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                      #11
                      Dang he was a good looking deer!

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                        #12
                        Sorry for the loss. He was great looking deer.

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                          #13
                          what do you think is the reason for the lack of wear on the teeth???

                          protien maybe????

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                            #14
                            At least you found him and now he can be admired from now on.

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                              #15
                              I think when the standards for wear were made, it was probably in an overpopulated hill country area, which for most of the past it has been such, where they browsed a lot on hard limbs, etc. On our ranch, there's a lot of cropland holding cotton, wheat, corn, milo. They eat a lot of horsetail and leaves and not as much hard forage that wears the teeth. For whatever the reason, they don't have the wear here that the standards would show. They are almost always a year or two older than the jaw shows. The Junco shows at least 2 years difference.

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