I shot this guy a few years back and thought it was kinda interesting. I think this happens when the old horns do not fall off in the winter and the new ones start to grow in underneath them. I saw a similar full body mount in a Gillette Wyoming Sporting good store where the old horn was still attached to the new one and the shape was similar.

Anyone else see one like this before?

Wow, that is bizzare.

Non Typical for sure... nice lope just the same.

May be was made by Paul Jr. from Orange county choopers for a indian customer je,je,

OK, I'm confused. I thought Pronghorn were antelope, in which case they don't shed. That could be genetic or from an injury or illness in early life.

Need to watch the terminogy.

The Pronghorn has horns and as I understand it they shed the outer sheath each year and they are misnamed as they aren't a true antelope.

DB Bill nailed it.

Not sure how we got started calling them antelope or "goats". They are NOT part of the antelope family. My wife acutally educated me to that fact.

That is an interesting 'lope. The antelope is a facinating animal in general to me. Here's a good summation of the species:

http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Antilocapra_americana.html

I don't think most people would know that antelope lived (and some still do) throughout the Baja peninsula. In about 1985 I was driving from Loretto over the mountains to the Pacific coast. As we came down out of the mountains, I saw a single antelope buck standing off to the side of the road. I nearly had a wreck I was so surprised. I didn't see any females but he wasn't in a very open spot at all.

True, pronghorns are not lopes, nor are they goats, but for the life of me I don't believe they shed their horns, or their outer sheaths. Those horns in the photo are certainly unique but are most likely due to an injury or genetic anomoly.

Now, i could be wrong, and if so lets see some photos of sheds or inner sheaths exposed or something.

This is from a scientific text:

The "horns" of the pronghorn are of special interest. Each horn is comprised of a slender, laterally-flattened blade of bone which grows from the frontal bones of the skull, forming a permanent core. As in the Giraffidae, skin covers the bony cores, but in the pronghorn it develops into a keratinous sheath which is shed and regrown on an annual basis.

I'm going to have to break out the camera and pic up a shed from an Antelope which is laying 20 feet away at the moment for you non believers! Gosh, I though we knew it all.

Well I do but I try to be modest ... with a touch of sarcasm.

Very interesting. I learn something new every time I log on.

I have been hunting them pretty much annually for the past 12 years. I learned a lot from the rancher we hunt with and was also shocked to hear that they lost the shells every year. I figured they were a horn of hair much like a rhino that continuted to grow with the years.

They are the second fastest animal on earth too.

If any of you get to Gillette Wy, its worth it to go into the newer sporting goods store to the South of town (the name escapes me) and see the full body mount I was talking about. The old shells are hanging from the new horns. Very odd looking. Great store too.