Mortenson
5 year old buck +
Here's a similar deer I had once. I passed him up as a fairly mature buck, maybe 4.5. He even had the same left antler as yours. The next yr he had gone from an 8 to an 11 and put on some decent inches. (Coincidentally I have a 5.5 this yr who became an 11 after being an 8 all his life. It paid to pass him up last yr.) Anyway, I shot that 1st buck the following year at 45 yards with a 3" 12 gauge slug and horrifically couldn't recover him. A deer showed up the next yr who I truly believe was him, much diminished, and then again the next yr diminished even more, just knobby and ancient. We found his carcass.





