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27 03, 2013

The X-Ray Buck (aka Arrowhead Buck)

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 27th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Bowhunting, Deer Science|1 Comment

This is the week of bucks with holes in their heads. A few years ago in Maryland Jonathan Leith dropped this 8-pointer. The 2 1/2-year-old buck wasn't big enough for a shoulder mount, so he decided to saw the skull into a European mount. Look what he found! Sunk just below the right eye socket and into the honey-combed nasal sinus area was a piece of an XX75 aluminum arrow with a 3-blade broadhead. I figure that arrow was fired into buck sometime the year before because Jon told a newspaper guy: “There was no physical evidence that the deer had an arrow in it. The skin wasn’t broken, there was no pus pocket. The eye appeared to be normal.” [...]

26 03, 2013

Hole-in-the-Skull Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 26th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|Comments Off on Hole-in-the-Skull Buck

From Matthew in Kansas, who sends us lots of cool stuff (thanks man!): Three years ago I found the left shed of a buck I called “10-10.” The shed had a pretty good chunk of skull plate attached to the back edge. Fast forward to last season. I shot the buck with a rifle and took him to (a guy) to cape him for me. As he was caping, his knife poked into the skull behind the left beam. Once we cut the skull cap off the head, there was a mass of soft connective tissue and puss in the brain cavity . There was some puss on the outside of the skull too. Once the mass was removed, [...]

25 03, 2013

Alberta HandleBars Muley Buck

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 25th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|1,209 Comments

From boone-crockett.org: Justin Eckert… watched this mule deer buck during summer scouting sprout his new antler set, until the buck contracted an unknown disease (or was injured) that almost finished him. Somehow this buck made a full recovery to a healthy body weight, but not before the ordeal took its toll (on the rack). Yeah, he ended up growing one of the coolest racks I’ve seen from 2012. Handle Bars! And see how he didn’t lose the velvet on right side? Man, gonna be a killer mount.

21 03, 2013

New Jersey 13-Point Buck: Drop or Not?

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 21st, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer|3 Comments

Joe from New Jersey says: Mike: Here is the 13-pointer that I took last season. I have been hunting NJ for 30 years and this is the second biggest deer I have taken. Does it qualify as a drop tine or double drop???—Joe Great buck man, but I can’t give you either one. That’s the left main beam tipping down; and the sticker shooting straight out is cool, but not a drop.

20 03, 2013

Whitetail Science: Unicorn Buck Skull!

admin2020-06-10T09:23:37-04:00March 20th, 2013|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Science|20 Comments

Hope you’ve been following our recent string of unicorn buck posts, I believe we’re compiling the most/best info on this unusual topic. Thanks to Wren for this most recent photo from Texas: Mike, this skull was found by a neighbor close to where Jake Steen shot his unicorn buck (scroll down below). Thought the skull would really help folks understand this phenomenon. Yes, it shows the growth as well as I’ve seen it. Scientists say a unicorn tine is caused by trauma to the front facial bone, such as (and most likely I reckon) a tine puncture from another buck. Most of the unicorn tines I’ve seen (in pictures, never seen one in the wild) sprout from the bone area [...]