nice whitetail with a pretty cool trophy of his own

Holy Cow!! Man, he must have been one tough hombre to not only survive something like that but to pull the antler, and part of the skull plate, away from his opponent!

Reminds me of another one I saw on the Boone and Crockett page of a big whitetail buck with 3/4 of another antler imbedded in his neck.

Nice deer....and one tough dude is right!!!!

looks like a droptine thats grown under the skin

Hole smokes, that is nuts. What a big ole buck, wonder how he was doing when he was killed? Imagine he had some vision troubles.

Dang.. how come I can't find a deer like that?! :-k I might actually be able to do a great sneak on him.. he has a huge blind spot! LOL

I was emailed a couple more pics of this same buck. However, as we are all WELL aware of, it came with a story that I cannot confirm at this time.

However, I will say that the email I got said that the extra antler is actually a third antler coming from a pedicle next to the eye.

Now, we all know that deer can certainly have extra pedicles. We see it once or twice every year at least. However, most extra pedicles are normally found around the forehead area.

However, I'm NOT too sure I am buying it. The eye looks infected to me (Notice the greenish "junk" around the bottom of the eye). Not to mention...and I don't know if it means anything....it sure looks polished to me. Too polished to be a third antler coming from the area near his eye. Of course, he COULD have injured his eye while rubbing the antler.

Anyway, the base of the third antler looks "heart shaped". I originally thought it was a portion of the skull plate when I saw the first photo that oldcp posted. I don't think it is now...but, who knows?

(The end of the third antler DOES look a lot like the end of the dropper on the MM mascot buck)

Anyway, thought I would throw these out for folks to take a look at and think about.

Seeing how the MAIN head gear is symmetrical and looks great...I'd say this was stuck in him from another buck fighting. (???)

What ever it is, he's a one in a million trophy. I'd like to see him european mounted, although if the third antler is just under the skin he would be ruined.

OUCH is right.

I wonder how the other deer feels with only half of his head gear left?

WOW. I just noticed that the Boone and Crockett website is reporting that this buck did indeed have a third antler growing from a pedicle at/near it's right eye and was not a broken antler from another buck!

What a crazy place to grow an antler!

link please. i have to prove this to a few other know it alls.lol

WOW! i missed the first post AGC made that it might be a third pedicle, i would have never noticed it myself. thats wild!

Bigbuck, here's the link:

http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/trophyWatch.asp?area=news

Thanks Hawk :thumb

The deer was Killed in Miami Co. Kansas on 10/23/07 with a bow by Rex Covell the buck measured 192 4/8" green non-typical P&Y

Heres your proof Cody :thumb


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holy poop sickle!!

Thats is amazing and nice buck it looks like the antler was in there for maybe a year or two the way the skin and tissue was formed around it in the picture wheres the head is skinned!! that is incredible!!

thats crazy lol

The antler GREW THERE,full story is on the B&C trophy watch.

There is crazy, and then there is CRAZY!! (@@)

Thanks for the proof, what a huge and awesome trophy.