Year of the six point

[Buckstopshere]

Seems like I am getting more different six points on camera this year than any year I can remember.

[turkeyfeathers]

Some nice 6's.


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[growalot]

Wow was that a scar down the face of second buck?...nice looking deer

[turkeyfeathers]

Wow was that a scar down the face of second buck?...nice looking deer

Totally missed that. Very odd indeed upon looking again.


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[WNY Bowhunter]

Me too...more 2 year old 6s than I ever remember!!! I also have two fully mature ones. I think the deer started the growing season in poor shape this spring due to the severe drought during the summer and lack of winter forage/mast. Thankfully, the mild winter and wet spring helped them out. Also, have a lot of scrubby spike-3 pt. yearlings...

[Buckstopshere]

6 hours ago, growalot said:

Wow was that a scar down the face of second buck?...nice looking deer

Could be. Here is another shot of him, little more light on his back quarter. This buck has an abrasion on his left hind. He's had it all spring-summer. Just a guess, but maybe the possible scar on his face and the abrasion...or the cause of different hair growth could be related (maybe rife round on a previous season...edge of his face mask and through the edge of his side?)

[Buckstopshere]

5 hours ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

Me too...more 2 year old 6s than I ever remember!!! I also have two fully mature ones. I think the deer started the growing season in poor shape this spring due to the severe drought during the summer and lack of winter forage/mast. Thankfully, the mild winter and wet spring helped them out. Also, have a lot of scrubby spike-3 pt. yearlings...

I would say that I have two mature ones too. And we did have the drought...but we had a tremendous mast crop last year and with the scant snow cover, even though a long, cold spring...they wintered well. What seems weird is that the bucks seem to have fewer points! I know it sounds strange...and not the first time i sounded a bit crazy...but that is the way it seems compared to recent years of thousands of trail cam pictures.

[Adkhunter1590]

I have a bunch of 5 and 6 pointers running around as well. Last year it was 7 pointers I was covered up in. Defiantly weird. Here's one of my 6 pointers who's become a regular at my apple tree