i had this little guy on camera all last year and i just got pics of him with his new headgear last week. he had something going on with his stomach last year and at one point during one night had something sticking out of his stomach, then later that night it wasnt sticking out anymore, was really weird. but i guess it is an ongoing issue he is having since he has gone half mooose and is still in velvet while all the others are hard horned now.


last year




this year

Very cool pics. Definitely the same buck. Looks like he had a stick jabbed into him.

He's definitely got a cool set of antlers growing this year.

Does look like a stick to me too. Cool rack this year.

Wow...what a difference a year makes

That is awsome!

Thats really cool

Let me go and see what he does next year i bet it will be an awesome rack!

this pic is from later that morning, whatever it is that was sticking is gone, and i had pics from him on the night of the 19th when it wasnt showing either. the wound was there in december, that thing was only sticking out of it for those few hours on 1/20...

looks alot like an arrow.

Very low shot with a bow

Cool deer. I wonder what that was sticking out of him. Maybe a little tree branch?

Surprised and glad he made it

Now thats pretty neat, and a heck of a cool looking deer this year wonder if he will shed his velvet before bow season?

That is wild...

you can tell us what it was when you get him on the ground!!!!

Very interesting and sure like the palamation on those antlers. Thanks for sharing

That's his dip stick to check his oil level

Nice looking buck.

that buck would make an interesting wall hangin

Lol, agreed.

Those are really cool photos. I thought it looked like a stick or something. I don't see it being an arrow, and given the dates, it wouldn't really make sense, but possible.

Glad he survived!

Question, do people see the velvet come off and show just regular points under that velvet palmation...meaning, does the velvet ever act like a webbed finger or toe and actually make it look like it will be palmated but when the velvet comes off it will just be a regular looking rack?

Just curious...

looks like a stick to me also. Thats a crazy difference from last year. I wonder if the stick had anyhting to do with it. I have killed deer that have been hung in fences and got loose. The following year one side of their horns would be non-typical.

I shot a buck with a 30-30 one year. Bullet went in right shoulder quartering away and did not fall. Did not find the buck.
Next year, I shot the buck, fell dead. It too had a non-typical rack on the left side.
Ol' wise man told me that the bucks horns will be affected on the opposite side of trauma. I believe him.

Shocked he looks so healthy!

Rear leg injury will affect opposite side antler growth. Front leg injury will affect same side antler growth.