Spikes Grow Up Too!

[Cabin Fever]

I don't remember if I posted these pics last year or not. Thought it was interesting, and with all the new members since last year, I thought I would share anyway.

I got a pic of a piebald spike back in '06. In '07, I had the trailcam back in the exact same tree and got a couple more pics of the piebald and he was sporting a decent 8pt rack. Never saw him again or heard of anyone in the area seeing or taking him.

Just goes to show that spikes grow up too! There's no denying, this is not the same buck.

[First-light]

Thgis is cool! It just goes to show ya that the experts aren't always right. I can remember watching hunting shows years back and the guys taking spikes out of the herd. They said a spike will always be a spike, wrong! Thanks for posting.

[DeerStalker22]

Ya I have never been a believer in that saying either, that is a really cool looking deer, to bad you didnt get another picture of him the next year to see how much more he grew.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Ive seen deer that were spikes one year and 7 or 8 point the next. They dont all have 4 points for their first racks.

That one is technically not a true spike though, you can see the beginning of a point on the right side in the first pic. It wouldnt be a legal point, but its there.

[pawle76]

Nice pics! Thats a handsome fella !

[Hucksplace]

If Spikes never grew bigger racks I would have nothing but spikes running around my area...I have pics of 5 different spikes this year alone from 1 stand...

[UpStateRedNeck]

Obviously a different deer, doesn't have ANY distinguishing characteristics.

On a serious note, thanks for posting that, really really cool pictures.

[nyantler]

Usually, but not always... spikes are just late born deer that have a lot of catching up to do as far as body growth.. hence most of what they eat goes to getting them to body size.. leaving little for rack growth in the first couple years... once their body catches up... their racks will begin to grow as well.. unless of course the food source is limited.

[wooly]

Any update on this guy?

[Cabin Fever]

How the hell did this post get resurrected after almost 3 years??

 

My last pic was from 2007. I was talking to a neighbor in 2012 about bucks that seem to fall off the face of the earth and mentioned this piebald. He showed me a pic of another neighbor (~2 miles away) with the piebald that he killed during gun season in 2007! Sure enough! It was this one! Guess that explains his absence over the past few years!