Something to get you pumped up for the upcoming deer season - A good friend who spends more time hunting with a camera than with a gun or bow recently sent me these pics of an impressive buck from the western part of New York. I'll send measurements and more pics if he decides to hunt this brute and lucky enough to bag him.

Very wide with double drop tines. Nice.

That is the buck of a lifetime. All I can say is WOW...

What did you say the address of that plot was

I hate to be the skunk at the lawn party but to me (and I started hunting deer in both the Catskills and Adiroundacks of NY over 60 years ago) that deer looks deformed. I'm perfectly willing to be convinced otherwise and maybe it's just me in the way I'm looking at the picture - but he just doesn't look like a really good conformation big buck of, say. 8 points or even 10 points.(There is something deformed about that rack. I admit, maybe it's just me and the way I'm looking at the picture)

A couple of the pictures do seem to look like he's curling down at the end of the main beams. Even if he's not, he clearly has a lot more width than height. But I'd still shoot it!

LWD

That's a shooter in my book! Nice buck.

Nice buck.

Oh yes "deformed" and "curling down"!
Better pass on that one and take a "basket racked" deer with more of a classic shape to it!

For me I would love a non-typical with lots of "junk" on it.
Very nice buck.............

Looks pretty good to me.

Thanks for sharing,
I love double drop tine bucks, something about being a little noncomformist.

Deformed....yes... deformed right into my trophy room and right on to my plate in the best of all possible worlds.

Wow.

That rack is deformed and unacceptable.I will however cull it for you to get its genes out of the pool.No charge.

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Originally posted by Snellstrom:
Oh yes "deformed" and "curling down"!
Better pass on that one and take a "basket racked" deer with more of a classic shape to it!

For me I would love a non-typical with lots of "junk" on it.
Very nice buck.............

For many years in New York a "classic rack" was a perfect eleven pointer... two tiny spikes.

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Originally posted by 308Sako:


For many years in New York a "classic rack" was a perfect eleven pointer... two tiny spikes.

I like that!
I shot a lot of "that kind" of 11 pointers growing up in Oregon but never heard them called 11 pointer.

double drops are cool

There was one year I shot a spike and when I saw it laying in the snow I thought "wow I shot a doe". It turned out to be a 1 pointer as one side had been shot off.

Rad

Olbiker:

Glad to have someone agree with me that the rack was deformed! I'm only sorry that I had to go as far west as Wisconsin to get support! (You have great ruffed grouse hunting and I have seen pics of real Wisconsin white tails so I do appreciate hearing from an authority!) Your offer to cull, I suspect ,will be refused by a lot of guys between Wisconsin and NY!

That is a great buck by anyones standards, thanks for sharing the photos. Dr.C

doccash:

Too bad you don't identify what state you are from - It would give the rest of us a chance to decide how close you are to their own state's typical bucks. Frankly, if you think that is a typical buck, I have to wonder where you have been hunting white tails! I'm sure we all want to visit the area. - or you are from Texas where they raise practically all white tail deer on preserves or else bait the area after feeding them corn for ages (which probably results in deformed racks). (Yeah, I love to fight with Texans!) Either way, don't say that's a "great buck by anyone's standards". (That's a really long limb to get out on)

Gerrypeters375 wrote:

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you are from Texas where they raise practically all white tail deer on preserves or else bait the area after feeding them corn for ages

Here we go again: another poster who tends to shoot off his mouth before his brains are loaded.

I suggest you actually come to Texas and get the facts before spewing your senseless blather.

And as to olbiker's post: He was using something called SARCASM.

Lastly, who cares if the buck is typical or not? I'd be willing to bet that he'd be the buck of a lifetime for 98 percent of all whitetail hunters -- and I for one would not hesitate for even a split second when it came down to deciding whether to shoot or not.

gerrypeters: I never said he was typical. I said he was wonderful. I came to Texas in 1957 from N.J-NY so I have seen both sides of the coin. I have a DVM daughter that at present lives in Brooklyn Prospect Park. I would not give three rotten eggs for the whole damn cith and all the people in it! While were at it you do not know a damn thing about Texas hunting or probably anything else for that matter Dr.C

I've been hunting in the Catskill mountains for over 20 years and never, ever seen anything like that. That's why I keep hearing that western NY is the place to hunt.

That's a nice rack.