extremly odd deer...input needed

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Watched this deer for four years, never shed his antlers or velvet. When I did finally kill him, I found out he was a stag. Has anyone else seen this before?



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Yes in certain areas they are killed every year. Neat euro

Never seen one. Just read about them. Rare, unique trophy!

I shot one back in 1987 in East Texas.
It was the last day of the season. His antlers were still soft.

I kill one just about every year. Meats awesome.

Yep, lots of them in the Hill Country.

Stupid question, but what makes it a stag? Google only made me more confused.

No family jewels.

Unique euro!!

That is caused by a hormone deficiency (no testicles).

Shorten your fences

I have never seen one, but heard about them.

I had one like that on my place last year but never got a chance to put a pin on him

A condition called "Hypogonadism" causes stag bucks. TPWD released a good paper on it a while back.

Cool euro

Lease partner killed one in Llano county. Biologist told us that ther is a fungus (moss) that grows on the granite out here that the deer love. If they eat too much of it as fawns it can cause the jewels not to drop. Hence a cryptorchid deer. Always velvet little to no testosterone. Uncommon but not rare out my way

From the S.E. Louisiana pine woods. (No granite around here. )

Yep, hill country has quite a few. I shot one a few years ago.

Shot this freaky muley stag on our place a few years back..

I killed one once. Turned out it was the neighbors pet that they had castorated.

They can't get much lower..lol

I really didn't know they were that common thnx for the feed back

Mine is from east texas. Damn near perfect 10. [img]https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/usergals/2014/12/full-30022-20348-image [img]https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/usergals/2014/12/full-30022-20349-image.jpg[/img]
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Some parts they are extremely rare, others not so much