This is my WT buck from this year. This is a first for me. I've never seen it before.

I've shot 2 whitetail bucks with them.

http://www.buckmanager.com/201...r-with-canine-teeth/


Good article on "fanged" whitetails.

We see them in muleys once in a while.

As the article says, the muntjac and water deer of Asia have tusks, but so do the guemel deer of South America.

Check out the lower jaws of your mounts of whitetail, mule deer, elk or moose and you will see a dark spot on each side. I don't know what biologists say about these spots, but I have always viewed them as evidence of the times in prehistory when all deer had tusks.

Bill Quimby

The Muntjacks have them and they can be seen outside showing about 1 inch. The Himalayan Musk Deer have large ones - probably 1.5 to 2 inches long!

I can honestly say I've never seen that before in Whitetails, Mule Deer or Blacktailed Deer and honestly I've seen a lot of them.
I'll keep my eyes peeled from here on out.

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Originally posted by Snellstrom:
I can honestly say I've never seen that before in Whitetails, Mule Deer or Blacktailed Deer and honestly I've seen a lot of them.
I'll keep my eyes peeled from here on out.

Same here!

Yes, both of the mule deer my sons shot this year had them. The whitetail my taxidermist shot also had canines.