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08-15-2018, 08:15 AM | #13 | ||||||
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I’m thinking not the same buck but most likely closely related. Same male carried gene pool.
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08-15-2018, 08:17 AM | #14 | ||||||
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I hope you're right Dean. Then possibly this guy is still running around even bigger than last year !
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08-15-2018, 08:58 AM | #15 | ||||||
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They do grow em big in those Indiana corn fields. I have family in Indiana. Uncle is primarily a bird hunter and not much of a deer hunter, mostly he just did not like taste of venison. The few deer he has taken were massive bucks with huge antlers. The ones he does harvest most of the time just takes em to have them made into sausage mixed with some pork. I just know his butcher/processor is grinning when he shows up, what sausage eater is going to miss tenderloins.
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08-15-2018, 09:15 AM | #16 | ||||||
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Speaking of big IN deer Todd here's one that showed up back in 2014 on 6/29 and again on 7/07 only never to be seen again. No sightings, no pics, no nothing except disappointment. He wasn't even close to being fully developed in those pics. What an animal !
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08-15-2018, 10:25 AM | #17 | ||||||
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Antler tissue is the fastest growing tissue among all mammals. They grow big deer with big antlers in Indiana and that is a good example. Looks like a 4+ year old to me...big body on him!
Here's a photo of a west-central PA buck taken about 5 weeks ago. Maybe a 2 year old, he has the dark bulbs at the tips of the tines and main beams so he has some growing to do. Kind of non-typical formation. While not a huge buck, this is a pretty good deer for the area and definitely on the list for archery season. |
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08-15-2018, 11:25 AM | #18 | ||||||
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Dadgum Randy that is an incredible animal. Sure that wasn't behind a high fence. Those antlers are hopefully still being enjoyed by someone.
There was this high fence operation over in Alabama. They have these massive GMO deer but I think base stock are deer were imported Midwest. They also used to have continental pheasant hunts and DIY plantation hunts. It was incredible hunting quail and pheasants and seeing those deer. BTW heaven forbid shooting a deer in there unless you were ready to get a check book out and were ready to stroke a 4 to 5 figure number. Funny but true story. They had a deer in there once that would break the Boone and Crockett record. It got around in the big game circle and they got an offer of $1 mil up front for an individual to harvest the animal but they had to prove and guarantee that it would break the record before he would fly in to hunt it. Obviously a bunch of money and they had no way to accurately measure the deer from photos to be sure. BTW a 2000 acre high fence operation is still a tough place to hunt deer at times, a lot of places to hide and get close enough so still fair chase but target rich environment. Anyway they make a rushed decisions based on a bright idea to just tranquilize the deer and then they could measure and verify. They did and sure enough deer would have beat the record by a good bit. Would is operative word, yep the deer had a reaction and died from the tranquilizer. Since it was not harvested in season etc. etc., no record and no money. |
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08-15-2018, 11:44 AM | #19 | ||||||
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No high fence Todd. Those pics came from a mineral lick on the back of my property. A place out of the way that I rarely bother except for monitoring cameras and hunting, almost a sanctuary if you will. He is the biggest deer I have ever seen on my place. Had this one in 2015, got a few pics in velvet, got the one pic in November but never laid eyes on him and I hunted hard. I am starting to think they might be smart, smarter than me for sure.
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