North American Whitetail has the story of the monster Mikell Fries shot with his bow last October 14. Why was the giant (with drop tines!) still in velvet?
…while examining the buck, Mikell noted there was only one testicle, and even it was poorly developed. While it’s unknown if this was a physiological anomaly or the result of an injury, it no doubt caused the hormonal imbalance that prevented the monster whitetail from going through a normal antler cycle. Clearly the deer had never shed the rack he’d been wearing when Mikell first found him before the season in 2012. From an 8-pointer then, he’d grown into a 26-pointer!
Big Deer are fascinating…
And BTW, every once in a blue moon a world-class non-typical like that is killed in South Georgia, like Billy Joe Padgett’s 245 4/8” 38-pointer back in 1998.
That buck is a dandy wherever it is from! Congratulations.
What an awesome trophy! Congratulations!
Cool buck! I think all those bucks that keep the same rack year after year without shedding and have testosterone issues look like a doe in the face. Doesn’t he look kind of girly in the face to y’all? Billy Joe’s buck is A MA ZING and has the mass that dreams are made of. Georgia has been putting out some truly awesome bucks these last few years and if you look at Boone and Crockett they are steadily increasing in the entries each year.
Interesting that it had somewhat of a “normal” rack, and it wasn’t a “cactus buck”.