today's deer was full of surprises...

[TNBillyEarl]

This deer has much character, so much so it is probably worth a short story and a few pics. After a couple of hours sitting on a perfect morning and seeing zero, he snuck right by me upwind. But with the strong wind keeping my scent away he was none the wiser. After a rather poor shot (through the spine, DRT) I walked up to a rack with 3 broken tines and a hole. One of the broken tines was an inward facing kicker, another was a brow tine, the third might have been the G3. I knew this guy had been seeing some action and in more than one rumble of late.

A couple of hours later I was again surprised - in his front shoulder I found a tine from another deer. Four and one-half inches stuck in his shoulder. Crazy.

This guy is going to make a very cool euro mount next week. Happy Thanksgiving to Nosler Nation.

-B

 

[DrMike]

Indeed, a most unusual buck. Congratulations.

 

[JD338]

He was a scrapper. Nice buck, congratulations.

JD338

 

[Wolfshead]

Nice deer!
if I were you, I would attach the piece of tine to some artificial sinew and hang it off the antlers when your euro is finished.
make for a good conversation piece….

 

[sako2]

Congrats on a unique buck.

 

[salmonchaser]

Always looking for character. That is a dandy with the story to go with.

 

[RL338]

Congrats on an unusual looking rack. It must have taken some serious force to snap that tine off in him.

 

[wvbuckbuster]

They do grow some unusual racks. Interesting. Dan.

 

[TackDriver284]

Congratulations on your harvest, that deer is a tough ol brute to carry a broken tine inside of him. Like the others mentioned, mount it with the broken tine and some stories to mention about it. That buck is an unique one.

 

[gerry]

Can you imagine having 4 1/2" of antler stuck in your shoulder? That's crazy, tough deer. Cool rack on him too.

 

[xphunter]

Weird is Cool!

 

[Darryle]

I like character in a rack, size no longer matters

 

[TNBillyEarl]

Thanks for the suggestion of attaching the tine to mount. When cleaning him up I found he actually had 4 tines broken off. Christmas gave me time to finish him off...

 

[DrMike]

Looks quite attractive. (And the Alliant powders don't look bad either!)

 

[NYDAN]

That is great looking. You did a nice job on it.

 

[JD338]

Very nice Euro mount

JD338

 

[RL338]

Looks good
What’s hiding in the left lower corner?

 

[JD338]

Looks good
What’s hiding in the left lower corner?

I saw that too.

JD338