My 5.5 yr old heavyweight showed

[Mortenson]

First appearance of Jiggly Puff in '24. Ugh not what I was hoping for. With 2" twos and 1" threes this deer might fall short of net boone.

 

[fingers]

Browtines are solid. He'd easily make spoon & crockpot.

 

[SwampCat]

Our bucks commonly start downhill at age five. Pick up some mass - but may lose a tine

 

[T-Max]

One of them kids in your profile pic needs his first buck!


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[Bill]

Jiggly won’t be easy to kill. There’s a reason he got jiggly.

 

[KY wild]

Just being nosey, did he go down hill? Do you have a history with this deer?

 

[Mortenson]

Just being nosey, did he go down hill? Do you have a history with this deer?

Looks like my daughter picked up his shed on 2/28/22, when we guessed he was 2.5. He always had a decent frame but short tines. Maybe there's a chance he's 6.5 this year in my original post. I'll include a a couple pics from last year as well, when we guessed he was a 4.5 and the heaviest deer on our farm. Haven't physically seen him since 2.5. We don't see this deer. We also have a 6.5 on cam this summer who we have never seen alive once. We have his sheds the past 4 years. Tend to hunt conservatively and I think it shows sometimes.

Yes he went downhill. Not for lack of appetite.

 

[KY wild]

Thanks, I like the story and the knowledge. Very local boy figured us humans out, smarter than the average deer

 

[Mortenson]

Got another daylight pic of this guy while still in velvet. At this point in the game he's my #1 target. Pretty good chance he'd be my heaviest buck ever. What do you guys think he'd dress - 230-240?

 

[T-Max]

Got another daylight pic of this guy while still in velvet. At this point in the game he's my #1 target. Pretty good chance he'd be my heaviest buck ever. What do you guys think he'd dress - 230-240?

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You sure you haven’t had him penned up with some butcher steers somewhere?!


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[Tree Spud]

Got another daylight pic of this guy while still in velvet. At this point in the game he's my #1 target. Pretty good chance he'd be my heaviest buck ever. What do you guys think he'd dress - 230-240?

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Is that a cowbell around his neck? He's a hog!

238 lbs FD

 

[Turkey Creek]

He is a cool deer for what he is antlers and body weight. I would be happy to put an arrow through him. Or as previously mentioned let one of the kids have something to brag about.

 

[Bill]

He's a porker for sure.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Who needs to waste nutrients on antler growth when you can build a gut like that?

 

[Mortenson]

Big boy couldn't beat the midges.

 

[Tree Spud]

Always frustrating when that happens. Great mass thou.

 

[hillrunner]

That sucks

 

[Mortenson]

That sucks

Yeah it does. Nature doing her thing. And the thing is, nobody has even started looking yet. We found 2 more today just driving the tractor around field edges cutting back some brush and mowing the foxtail. Have a feeling we'll find a bunch come shed season. Is it a coincidence or not that our dnr said they're temporarily suspending the snipers as a major ehd outbreak occurs? A beacon of light - card pull just after finding the dead ones today. Hoping it's our future.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

That really sucks, that was a heck of a deer.

Is there a way to tell it died from EHD versus another cause? I found a dead doe last weekend in an open grassy area below a small pond. It seemed to be an odd place for a gut shot deer to die, but I've never heard of EHD outbreaks in Minnesota.

 

[blueKYstream]

That buck looked not too far off from what I took 2 years ago. Maybe hard to tell the mass in the bases. He didn't grow much in the previous 4 years I could recognize him on camera.