What happened to this buck???

[GoneSouth]

5.5 years old

Whoo Wee! Look at them toes! Would ya just look at em! Lol

But seriously those toes are the answer, either that deers older than you think or it has foundered, possibly around the time his antlers went wompus

[Mex. Bowhunter]

I'd let him roll unless you really like him this yr. He could Come out of it and still Clean up at 7.5. Good Luck on what ever you Decide.

[Cull hunter]

I heard in wet years from a biologist that there is a certain plant deer will eat that can negatively effect a deers horns as well. But they will return to normal. Tadd, who hunted across the street from y'all and then again on a place off 16 close to freer, had one grow two big knobs one year and then go back to normal. We had the same thing a few years back on our place.

[BrandonA]

That buck is older than dirt

[bukkskin]

I'd let him roll unless you really like him this yr. He could Come out of it and still Clean up at 7.5. Good Luck on what ever you Decide.

This. Gotta agree with MB again.

[Big Mike M]

This. Gotta agree with MB again.

He is 7.5 this year in the last pic above.

[Mexico]

Dang cool buck.

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[bukkskin]

He is 7.5 this year in the last pic above.

Ok, but he may straighten out and be normal next year.
He has all the feed that he needs, right?
I would let him go and see what he does next year. You might be surprised or you might be disappointed.
It is always a gamble on deer.

[steve morton]

That second buck looks 7-8 with that Roman nose.

[DKW II]

Thats a tough one to try to even score, very odd how his configuration just changed like that. Must have had some kind of injury is the only thing I can think of.

[TXBRASS]

He’s back. Any guesses on score this year? He has about a 4” kicker off right G-2 you can’t see in this pic.

LOVE THIS BUCK!!!

Call him "Medusa"...

[TXBRASS]

Anxious to see him hard horned....

[Big Mike M]

Anxious to see him hard horned....

Me too. I will be back down there the last weekend of Sept. Most of our bucks rub out end of Sept. or early Oct. Hopefully I get lucky and he has rubbed out. Wouldn't hurt my feelings if he added a few more inches before then.

[B&C]

I have bucks that do this every year. All of them except one have returned to normal in later years. We have a buck that was a 160"+ in '14, '15 and '16. Last year he dropped to a 110 cull. This year he's pushing 170'w/16pts and 4.5" of rain ytd on Sept 5.

I think they get injured or sick. We also find an occasional shed with a piece of skull on it....

[Big Mike M]

The hunt is over for this buck. He made a mistake Friday evening and I made him pay.