One month of antler growth...

[WNY Bowhunter]

Last year I had a beautiful 3.5 yr old 12 pt on cam. I had my fingers crossed that he would survive gun season as he made a huge jump from the previous year. Luckily for him, a buddy of mine that hunts the neighboring property actually passed him up on the opening weekend of rifle season as he chased a doe all around for half an hour. We had no other sightings of him for over a month until he surprisingly showed up on one of my cameras a week after late muzzleloader ended. He had several broken tines and his let ear was split up the middle, but he was alive and well!!!

In early June I captured two pics of a nice looking buck with a split ear...it was him no doubt about it!!! Date is wrong on the pic should read 6/06/18). 

Finally, he showed back up with a very familiar buddy on 7/6!!! He appears to be working on being a 12 already with about another month to go. He added a lot last year in mid-late July.

 

[Robhuntandfish]

he made it to another year just for you!  good luck- next pics of him we expect to see you holding that rack up for him!  Awesome buck

am hoping a couple ive been chasing made it too! 

[ny hunter]

Real nice deer!!!! Good luck !

[grampy]

As a four year old, he is going to be a stud!!!  Beautiful buck!  Hope you lay hands on him this season!

Yesterday,I actually laid eyes on one of our best bucks from last year. The split ears were the give away! 

[turkeyfeathers]

Stud alert 

[WNYBuckHunter]

Great deer, would be nice to see him as a 5 or 6 year old. Hes a stud for sure.

The height on the other buck is crazy.

[moog5050]

jealous - I mean good luck!

[WNY Bowhunter]

11 minutes ago, WNYBuckHunter said:

Great deer, would be nice to see him as a 5 or 6 year old. Hes a stud for sure.

The height on the other buck is crazy.

He's 6 years old...hasn't changed much from 4.5. He looks unbelievable in person!!!

[NFA-ADK]

Real beauty, good luck with him.

[moog5050]

22 minutes ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

He's 6 years old...hasn't changed much from 4.5. He looks unbelievable in person!!!

Confused.  Thought you said he was 3.5 last year.  Regardless, a beauty for sure.

- you must mean the tall one.  Never mind

Edited July 9, 2018 by moog5050

[helmut in the bush]

Great pics

[WNY Bowhunter]

1 hour ago, moog5050 said:

Confused.  Thought you said he was 3.5 last year.  Regardless, a beauty for sure.

- you must mean the tall one.  Never mind

Yeah, the tall one.

Here's a cool sequence of him tending a post season doe in late december 2016...no summer velvet pics of him that year.

2017 version. I got a few sweet velvet pics but only one good hardhorn shot towards the end of rifle season but I accidentally deleted it....no post season pics but I did see him a couple times still packing in early Feb.

Edited July 9, 2018 by WNY Bowhunter

[moog5050]

That’s a huge 6pt.  Pretty rare.