This forum offers its members a long term heavy feed program. This thread and many others offers plenty to chew on and digest(or attempt). Kind of like deer, as youngsters we don’t know what we don’t know so we blindly flounder around, then we full grown and think we know it all and bounce around showing all, then the olds actually know that they don’t know and concentrate on what they do know and how to know more. Kinda…..
And so ends the session/sermon for today.

other than the animals actual structure its to much of a toss up... stress through each year of the animals life can affect a huge amount more than most give credit. IMO a buck has a very large range to what his capability is on antler growth every year... even a buck with a not so great makeup can blow up in his own right just from having low stressed year like mild weather or not competing as much for food/does and especially not having to go through rough weather stretch post rut... on the other hand you can have a deer thats been showing huge potential have a bad post rut or maybe just had to move a little more for food etc that just seems like he does nothing the next year but then pop right back up the year after that like hes a completely different deer