Finally dug some up. We go back and forth about age, think he is 4 or 5 this year. I think the dry spring/summer did a number on his antler growth this year, we didn't have a spring green up it was so dry and it stayed that way for us through most of the summer. We had protein out most of the time but there was a month or 3 during prime growing time we were not able to keep the feeders full and im sure it set him back.
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Is he just a 6x4 this year? Did you get any spring TC pics of him to see when he lost his antlers? Almost looks like he held that left side much longer than the right by how much smaller it is than the right. Would be great if he could make it one more year to see if he gets back to normal. Great mass.

Here is one of the deer on my buddies 10 acres behind his house. He's been at the top of the hit list for a while now

I believe he is a 6x5 this year but that 5th on the 5 side isn't much. I believe he held both antlers for a bit longer than most of our other bucks last year. We had an incredibly dry late winter, spring, and summer, I attribute most of his lack of gain to that. He definitely didn't put on the tine length he had from last year either.

Here is one I shot back in 2012. In hind sight I wish I would have given him another year but it is what it is he met our requirements at the time.

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One my brother shot in 2015.
Crab claw 8 behind feeder at 2.5

Didn't get any pictures of him at 3.5 years old.
4.5 years old. Got a handful of trailcam photos of him on areas we would hand corn but was never seen on camera at any feeder and was shot during the heat of the rut running a doe. Pre rut he ran with a group of bucks that are ghosts to us, never knowingly seen them before and past a handful of pics over a week span never saw them again.

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2016 Typical 9 pt with 2 short kickers

2017 Typical 11 pt

Here's another. Couldn't get a straight on picture through my scope last weekend. I'm thinking he's older since he got ran off by a young 6 point on two separate occasions.

Another pic when he was still growing. His left side seems shorter than the right this year and he's got some webbed main beams on both sides.

Awesome pics!