Score another!

[Fletch]

We had fun guessing on the post from NYBuckHunter21 so I figured I would put up one I was chasing this year. Guess his age and score. He will not score anywhere like his but his bases are big big and he is a pig! We call him Porky!

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[nyantler]

beams 40, tines, 38, circums, 30, spread 17... 125

[Lawdwaz]

Lord does he have mass on those beams and bases...............................

[Geno C]

I'd say upper 120s, that's a pretty old deer tho. He's def mature

[Fletch]

Yea he has some serious bases and is a very big bodied deer. I still have the cam there hoping he made it.

[phade]

A big old buck who is blind in one eye.

[moog5050]

Be sure to set up on him from his right side next season.  lol He is a big boy.

[sampotter]

I give him a couple more inches on the beams and mass than nyantler, coming to 130+/-. Phade and Moog beat me to the eye comment. Mature buck though.

[Fletch]

Hmm I am not sure he is blind in one eye. Are you thinking that because no reflection in the one?

[sampotter]

  On 1/8/2014 at 9:54 PM, Fletch said:

Hmm I am not sure he is blind in one eye. Are you thinking that because no reflection in the one?

 

Exactly, 1st and 4th pics. The non-glow is a dead giveaway. His left eye has a glow in all 3 pictures that it is in.

 

[Fletch]

I have some other pics of him and none show that eye glowing. But none where that eye is really facing forward, but it looks fine physical wise. Wonder if it just never caught the reflection at the right angle or if he is blind in that eye. I am really hoping I have some more pictures of him on that cam.

[sampotter]

It could be that it was poked out this fall?

[nyantler]

  On 1/8/2014 at 9:37 PM, sampotter said:

I give him a couple more inches on the beams and mass than nyantler, coming to 130+/-. Phade and Moog beat me to the eye comment. Mature buck though.

 

You might be right about the mass Sam, but if you look close at his beams they are very short only about 3 times longer than his ears... I bet they barely get to twenty inches

[Lawdwaz]

What is it that makes that deer look old to you guys?

 

And, how old is old?

[sampotter]

  On 1/9/2014 at 1:02 AM, nyantler said:

You might be right about the mass Sam, but if you look close at his beams they are very short only about 3 times longer than his ears... I bet they barely get to twenty inches

 

I see what you are saying but his rack really rises up off his head pretty far and there is a lot of distance between the 1s and 2s. I still only think they are ~22+/-.

[NYBuckHunter27]

118

[sampotter]

  On 1/9/2014 at 1:33 AM, Lawdwaz said:

What is it that makes that deer look old to you guys?

 

And, how old is old?

 

Picture #2! I have a hard time describing the specific points that some come list off right out of the QDMA user's manual, but the way his neck blends right into his chest and his thick legs and body. He's clearly 4+. I'm thinking more like 5 or so. When I think of 'old' I imagine a buck that is going downhill. This buck says, "Not me. I'm in my prime."

 

[phade]

That boy is definitely blind. When you can't see the tapetum lucidum like that...he's blind. Either his eye was damaged or he was born without it and thus blind.

 

Don't feel bad if you can't shoot a half-blind buck. Others in the area haven't been able to kill him either, lol.

 

I see right at the 127-30 mark. Mass and his beams help nudge the score on this one. Those racks that lift high off the skull tend to score slightly longer than many think because of that.

Edited January 9, 2014 by phade

[Fletch]

  On 1/9/2014 at 12:46 PM, phade said:

 

 

Don't feel bad if you can't shoot a half-blind buck. Others in the area haven't been able to kill him either, lol.

 

 

 

Ouch!! lol

 

Just his bases alone put him at 4.5 or more for me. Then just the size of him and his gut specially this time of the season the pics are in. This deer will dress out over 200 without any problem.