My thoughts exactly. What piss poor luck for another buck to sneak a tine by your eyeguard and jab it out.It is pretty crazy the one eye buck lost the eye that has a wall of antlers growing around it. It would take a lot of bad luck for a tine to make it through those eye guarding antlers. Hopefully you can kill him before he gets poked in the other eye.
It is pretty crazy the one eye buck lost the eye that has a wall of antlers growing around it. It would take a lot of bad luck for a tine to make it through those eye guarding antlers. Hopefully you can kill him before he gets poked in the other eye.
You are spot on. Look at this poor guy. I’ve had him on camera since June, had him in bow range twice. Unfortunately I can’t burn a tag on him and honestly he’s liked for months like this so I’m not sure what his fate is. I have a buddy bringing his son to shoot does in late ml but told him this buck is his main targetI don't think it's anything but the former. Like you said, these animals aren't giving up their shot at life easily, they want to be here and their will to live is insane.
Kind of what I am feeling. Hopefully he makes it through the rest of the Winter and he rebounds next year. Last year I would have killed him and this year I would have passed him.Tough to say with so few angles but the similarities are striking and it would be one hell of a coincidence that there are two bucks walking around so similar.
I wish I had the ability to tag bucks . I always wonder when watching deer videos and guys say with "certainty" I have 3-5 years worth of pictures of this buck. I always doubt myself when looking at pictures and really don't feel very certain that I am looking at the same buck from year to year. Unless there is some other physical characteristic like a torn ear, missing a leg (I had one of those deer in the past) how do you really know you are looking at the same buck.Nope, I'm saying not the same buck.
I'm not the guy that thinks I can tell a buck from 1 yr to the next, I'm actually pretty critical of my ability to do that and look for physical characteristics and routes combined before I get to thinking I might have the same buck. In this case I just think it's unlikely for a buck to go from a main frame 10 to a 8, and to loose so much mass at the same time.I wish I had the ability to tag bucks . I always wonder when watching deer videos and guys say with "certainty" I have 3-5 years worth of pictures of this buck. I always doubt myself when looking at pictures and really don't feel very certain that I am looking at the same buck from year to year. Unless there is some other physical characteristic like a torn ear, missing a leg (I had one of those deer in the past) how do you really know you are looking at the same buck.
If that's a scar on his left ear (our right) im thinking same buckWhat are your thoughts on this being the same buck? 1st picture is this year, pictures 2 and 3 are last year. Buck was considerably bigger last year if it is the same one. The flyer points on the G2s, the tall and relatively narrow rack make me think it is the same buck. However he lost some mass and his G4s from last year if it is the same buck.
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