Got 2 different bucks coming to my mineral lick that their right side is bad messed up.

They need shot, jbyrd. I don’t let them get big enough around here to develop such anomalies.

Yep,,,,, you guys are creating problem using that (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman),,,,,,,
Keep the stuff out of the chain.
Sorry to you with big breast from chicken,,....

a good number of the ones I've seen with little rack growth on one side relative to the other had been shot the season prior in the off side

This.
It's called, oppositeisum (sp) an injury on one side of the body affects the antler growth on the opposite side

I was always told this too.

Was even told that a lot of times the injury was in the testicular area.

Using what vinke? All I use is brown mineral block from TSC

It's a genetic problem. We had/have that issue at Ft lee, VA . About 20 years ago a guy killed a nine pointer that must have been a dominate buck. His genes are all over the base. They kill one or two every year that looks like him. This is what you get when you only kill "mature" bucks.

Jbyrd, do you let them walk to see what they become the next season or cull them? No judgement either way just curious. Eric

I started taking those like that 25 years ago on my place and they still pop up. It has to be genetics.

That was the only downside to when our county went to the 4-pt rule. We have a strain of genetics that produce bucks without brow tines. The only time they could be legally culled was during youth season and after a couple seasons the kids realized they were in the golden time of the rut and began to holdout for a solid trophy. The 4-pt rule changed this year as we are now considered in the CWD zone. They even upped the doe tags to 4 per person which I think is a huge mistake. Rumor is he deer that tested positive wasn’t even from our county but was killed elsewhere and then reported to be killed locally to utilize a ‘landowner tag’.

I only get one buck tag. I’m not using it on one of them.
Going to try to hunt this one. No mass but definitely mature.

Don’t blame you one bit Jbyrd. Eric

They must be mutant refugees that swam the river from Ohio
& will be contaminating the SEC whitetail gene pool with their
Appalachian, inbred, mongoloid, Buck-eye retardation.

Cull them before they pass on their BIG TEN genes !!!

Oh did anyone notice how great my food plot looks ? Same place the pumpkin man said would NEVER grow anything.

Great buck and a nice lush plot. It’s been so dry here recently that it would be impossible to have a nice green plot without watering it. Eric

I got rain when it was first planted. It boomed. THEN 4-5 weeks 90 degrees and no rain. Being shaded like it was saved it. Now we are getting rain everyday. Giving more every day next 10 days.

Thought Swamp said it’s something to do with a pedicle injury and will get worse every year until they eventually die from it.
Here’s a shed we found from what we thought was an injury of sort. After fining this amount of bone gone we didn’t think he’d made it.


Yet here he is…


Can’t imagine him continuing to lose that much bone and continuing to make it.

Likely brothers with a Genetic anomaly.