Well that is a piece of information that changes everything. An injury to a leg will significantly affect the shape of the antlers.

BUT BERNIE he had the injury before he had antlers. So an injury has changed them from the beginning?????
So you changed your mind. Straight up LOL !!!!!!!!!!

Yep!

lmao boy most of this post shows just what deer hunting has become

almost 400
400
or over 400.

We have 3 spikes for about 4 years here. I think 2 are the offsprings. His spikes just keep getting longer. No brow tines.

Nope 187 one day then pushing 400 week later LOL LOL LOL

Nobody hunting on this post just looking at pics. Heck if I hunted a ranch in Texas and had a buddy that hung with the cows not bothering anything I'd let him live and watch him grow up... Why shoot him? Just because he doesn't or heck anyone doesn't "shoot" the first legal deer they see doesn't mean they are "farming bucks for antler growth. Doubt there are very many people now days that shoot the first legal deer just so they are finished. Times have changed around here. In the 70-80"s you shot the first buck you saw because chances are that was the ONLY buck you would see.

Where have I said anything about hunting deer on here ? I have not shot a deer in the last 10 years or so since I had a stroke. I enjoy looking at them and taking pictures sometimes.

Plus the fact that since I lost all of my old dogs and got another pup, he likes to play with them.

LOL Need to put bright orange collars around them so people won't shoot them.

Yep, that's a reflective collar she has on so people can't say that's not the same deer. LOL

What is funny is when 4 or 5 of the deer gang up on Roscoe, get after him, try to trap him, and spank his butt with their front feet. He has learned and gets in high gear. I get a lot of enjoyment from watching them.

one of those always an 8 point bucks.

yes, the obsession with antlers has become ridiculous.

On the idea of identifying a deer from year to year.
I myself don't see it unless as Cedar mentions he feeds them and sees one constantly.
After I see one buck several times a year I can recognize him, but the following year I have no idea what he'd look like antler wise.

I have seen 2-3 large bucks one year, the next year the biggest one was a small 6 pointer and the rest spikes or forks and so it goes from year to year.
Too much of a change from year to year to say with any certainty. Plus I just get sightings for short periods of time, seconds only and usually at over 30 yards in the woods.
Hard to even tell how many points they have.

Occasionally I'll get a doe I can recognize from year to year due to the coloring or shape of markings on her. But I see lots more does and see them frequently, almost daily at times. They are usually out around the house in the fields feeding on the forbs and grasses.

Have lots of deer around, but large percent are does.