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How do you come up with the names of your deer? #5468977 12/10/14 02:49 PM
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As the title states, how do yall come up with the names of the different deer you have showing up? I'm terrible at naming things, whether its deer or even my dog lol. I've got a few deer on cam and quite a few I see fairly regularly and when describing them to my BIL he's just like which one? You have around 6 that meets that description.

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History and/or antler characteristics. Once we get a few pics of them, we use the name to define them. Much easier than trying to describe them each time.

Examples: Pretty 10, high tower, goal post, sombrero, THE 9, wide track, forky, etc

Just pick a name you can remember grin


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Whatever stands out on them. My wife may call them something else after a while.

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That ten point, that 8 point, that deer with the broken beam, etc

We get real creative with it


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Prefer not to name them

Re: How do you come up with the names of your deer? [Re: ZK-315] #5469010 12/10/14 03:01 PM
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I've been trying. Only name I have so far is Split. I've got a nice young 9 with a split brow tine. The rest are just bad. I have around 4 or 5 different young 8s, a 9, couple of 6s, and 3 fork horns.

I cant really go with history, as this is the first year I've put a game cam up on this place. I've hunted it the past 4 years out of my BILs stand, and this year I've made my own spot so these are all "new-to-me" this year. But I do have a few up and comers in a few years up

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Re: How do you come up with the names of your deer? [Re: ZK-315] #5469026 12/10/14 03:05 PM
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"lumpy" - had a watermelon sized cyst or infection on his chest for 2 years
"kickers" - 3 year old with 6 kickers on his G2's
"basket" - 8 point with 10" spread and beams that touched at the end
"friendly 9" - 9 point that would come eat corn 30 seconds after the feeder went off

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We only name the ones we are tying to kill. Big 8, wide 8, tall 10pt, 10pt.. etc. we don't bother naming anything else.


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Re: How do you come up with the names of your deer? [Re: ZK-315] #5469292 12/10/14 04:56 PM
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Whatever pops in my head when I see them.

This year so far we've killed "Janky", a tall 6-pt cull. Also killed "Yowza!" a nice 10-pt. Still looking for "Wide Brows", the "Big 7", and "Pathetic."

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sounds like I'm not the only one then lol

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I don't really name deer, my wife will at the house blush I have named a few while on hunts, but mostly ones that beat me at the game. A few names, Chit, MOFO, sumbit%$. To name one as an "8" is more a description than a name..


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Re: How do you come up with the names of your deer? [Re: ZK-315] #5469526 12/10/14 06:45 PM
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Re: How do you come up with the names of your deer? [Re: TxAg] #5469551 12/10/14 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted By: TxAg
Whatever pops in my head when I see them.

This year so far we've killed "Janky", a tall 6-pt cull. Also killed "Yowza!" a nice 10-pt. Still looking for "Wide Brows", the "Big 7", and "Pathetic."
that is how I do it.

Bruiser - a ten point that looked like one of those show steers
Blondie - a very like colored doe
Cyclops - a one eye buck. Fortunately it was just swollen shut for a while
Whitey - a buck with very white antlers. Most of our bucks are dark

I had at least 3 8 point + at a blind and several smaller bucks. I named them to keep them straight. I forgot some of the other names I used.


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Re: How do you come up with the names of your deer? [Re: ZK-315] #5469558 12/10/14 07:03 PM
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thanks to yall, I now have one called skunk. he's got a really dark brown strip right down the middle of his back.

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I prefer not to name them

Re: How do you come up with the names of your deer? [Re: ZK-315] #5470165 12/11/14 01:00 AM
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We have and have had guys on the lease that named them, I don't participate, It actually is one of my pet peeves.


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"tear duct" had a swollen tear duct one season
"club foot" broken rf hoof/ankle
"widetrack" probably a 20" spread
"widetrackjr" Young wide buck
"goofy" had a realy goofy looking rack last season due to damage in velvet
"acorn" acorn on g2
"crazy 8" crazy looking rack
"high 8" tall 8
"crabclaw" Crab claws
"samurai" Just how his right main beam looks


you get the idea grin

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I ask our hunters to suggest names and then we pick one - on 9000 acres it comes in handy when guys are talking about various deer.

Hoss
Pila buck - was first seen near a water pila
Big Boy
Airplane
Crip - leg has an old injury on it

And on and on -


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Originally Posted By: Texasbdog
We have and have had guys on the lease that named them, I don't participate, It actually is one of my pet peeves.


Just curious, but why?


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We typically name the shooters - typically describing the antlers or something unique about the buck - a few times its been renamed from the story around how the buck was taken...

Dos - a nice buck that scored 152 12pt buck that hung around for round 2
Big Stud - 4-1/2 nice symmetrical 10pt with 14" G2s
Lil Stud - 2-1/2 buck that is clearly off Big Studs bloodline - identical body/antlers just a year or two younger
Misplaced - the 8pt buck I almost lost from this year's bow season
Carl - nice 155 12pt named for a NM guide I met while Elk hunting
Crooked-10 - very unique rack with even but crooked G3s on both sides
Napoleon - nice 12pt that showed up twice on camera in the middle of the day beautiful rack but vertically challenged


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We have and have had guys on the lease that named them, I don't participate, It actually is one of my pet peeves.


Just curious, but why?

I just think it's silly I guess, maybe I'm weird, it's like naming pets, half the time they aren't even talking about the same deer. "Hooks" was at 2 different stands at the same time???


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We have and have had guys on the lease that named them, I don't participate, It actually is one of my pet peeves.


Just curious, but why?

I just think it's silly I guess, maybe I'm weird, it's like naming pets, half the time they aren't even talking about the same deer. "Hooks" was at 2 different stands at the same time???


Nah. I have heard different reasons for not naming them, just always curious. I hunt on a large acreage place and our deer travel a lot from stand to stand. We see a lot of the same deer year after year and will pick a few to hunt each year. We have a lot of deer and when we say a name of one, the others know which one we are talking about. Can't say "that ten", because we might have 10 different ones on camera. Thanks for the answer cheers

And it sounds like you might hunt with liars or folks with bad eyesight...a deer named hooks should be easy to identify rofl


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Cinco- a five point that recently lost his life.

Drumstick- a young 8 point that has a knob on the tip of his left brow. My son said it looks just like a drumstick, so that's his name.

Lope- a very tall and narrow 8 point that looks like a pronghorn, so me and my son shortened the name "antelope"

Venom- my son named him after the Spiderman villain because he has a black face.

Beyonce- a solid black doe.


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Cinco (rip)


Drumstick


Lope


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Humpy the Hog. Can't remember why we call him that.


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