Our biologist says cull them if missing either or both brow tines, no matter what age. I let a 1.5yr old walk last year missing one brow. He is another year older and still missing same brow tine. I've taken note that all the bucks missing brows last year are still missing them this year.

because you can

a little off topic: but if I had a 3 legged deer I wanted a full body mount done on, I'd make sure the finished product had 4 legs.

haha!

how small of a parcel are we talking? That's basically the reason Mr. Gimpy 6/7 is still living and why I want more bucks around is due to the small acreage I have to work with and wanting plenty of selection within the different age classes once they reach maturity.

300 acres tops.. its land locked by the growing city and neighborhood..

Is this what they call a Green High Fence?

no, no, no, those deer can visit the local sonic and rut in the mall parking lot.

I got one if you want to come and shoot him and get him life-sized

is he a really big 8pt or piebald?

ha! yes i suppose they pretty much are fenced if you look at it like that! well im off to bed to dream of big racks......and maybe deer too. later guys

Nope he's only got 3 legs so his rack will be messed up. He is a typical 6x on his right side and the left side is a deformed rack with several beams at the base. Would have been a 190+ kinda buck. Piebald? If I can catch him I can dye his coat whatever color suits your fancy. So piebald is a definite

how did he end up with 3 legs, shot?

I have noticed that a lot of spikes will never produce a brow tine.. Those cow horned suckers and the ones who look like a giraffe.. I take those out.. Some don't agree and thats their business. . I had one age some who never would fork on one side..
I have seen em at 3.5 years.. Be a big heavy high six or a seven..Can't say I have ever seen em produce a 8.. Since they have to be 13inches.. We smoke em at that age if we miss a opportunity at them as spikes..

A young deer who is forked on both sides.. It's hard to say what he will do.. The next year he may produce brows no problem..

Now as far as your injured deer.. I had one once.. He was a nice 9 he had a drop.. Hence someone shot him.. We found him.. You could see the hole from a distance.. Managed to save him.. Fed him protein heavy up where he was hiding.. Even found the shed with the drop on it.. Now he was a great deer before he was shot.. After that he was always a big big 6 with brows.. Carried his head to one side.. We kept him for a couple of years anyway hoping for his genetics..Ol Tobe, yeah we named him.. Our neighbors got him.. He was a big heavy deer. When they get injured. The side that got hurt will always grow different.. Will be lop sided.. A injured deer should still throw good fawns.. I have only been doing this stuff for 7 years so I don't have all the answers, but I know what the deer on my place do cause I watch em and have done lots of experimenting..

I keep asking him but he ain't talking answering me.

Text him

And you know this works, how?

Well, with the acreage you've got some options.. Shoot em (choot 'em- if you're closer to LA than we are) or leave them be to have options in their age classes. If the buck in my pic would be big for y'all I might would suggest leaving them be and try to get some size from volume vs banking on quality to show up in fewer deer. Some places only a small handful actually have the genetics & nutrition to grow into your mgmt ideal deer. Those are things hard to control on deer that are part-time residents, but what you can control is the age of deer that are shot and amt shot on that particular property.

Some of our deer are extended members of the fam...added new lines to the family plan w/ unlimited messaging and multimedia so they could check moon phase & weather.... The 8pt is so dang smart he only uses it after 9 and cut off gps tracking.

Lay off the hardstuff rifleman..you are starting imagine things.

Must be the red diamond,, tellin' ya, if every deer was this set in their ways no deer would ever get shot.. neighbors said he has fallen off the map already.

He might just have fallen off into the back of a chevy also.

Doubtful, too tight knit an area for someone not to know about it. He's doing what he does and hunkering down on a small area and just not moving much; nobody can figure out where that is....or could be in one of our buffers.

For a number of years we saw quite a few bucks with no brow tines, one little brow tine, or two very short brow tines at 2.5 - 3.5 years old. We shot these bucks and eventually started seeing bucks with long brow tines. Now it is only on rare occasions that we see bucks with missing or little brown tines. My husband shot a 5 point a few seasons back that had a big body, a 13" inside spread and one little brow tine. This August we had a 4x4 buck on the trail cam in velvet, but his brow tines weren't even an inch long and his spread was way narrower than 13". All we can do is see what he looks like next year and hope he either grows better brow tines or develops a 13" spread so that he can be taken out of the herd. It will be interesting to see. Maybe he is a really young 10 pointer and will surprise us next season. Amazingly, we have some 8 pointers with really long brow tines, which is something we never saw 12 years ago.

I would also like to add that sometimes some of the best brows you could want out of what you have is not going to automatically make the deer shoot way up in score if you are really B&C score oriented.