the dream of any roe deers hunter, I think...
http://www.birding.se/birds/foto/djur/radjur.htm

anyone here have shot one?

Those first two pics of the buck are just plain UGLY !! to my eyes,never seen one in the flesh as it were.

The other ones are very nice though,thanks for posting them.
He would look even more lovely centred in my cross hairs

Regards
Roebuck222

The word management springs to mind

The first two photos show the "whig" type of deformation, which is most common on roe deer. It is sometimes seen on moose too, but that is even more unusual.

Last night I spent 14 hours in a blind, waiting for whitetails to appear. Saw a couple, but didn't get a shot at any. Last one to appear about 4 am was probably a roe deer, but I can't be sure. It was too busy going somewhere else than my feeder.

That first roe is just plain wrong!

I think that the condition comes from a lack of testosterone to harden the antler so often the deformation can blind the buck making it difficult for him to feed. I thik the growth is ofeten prone to infection too.

I know a stalker that has a waiting list of german clients ready to pay £5k to shoot a perruque...

I've never seen one but if I did I'd be rolling the poor fella over quite rapidly, cos it can't be a happy life.

FB

yes, the perruque formation occurs from castration (from disease or traumatise).
I have seen some, in museums and private collections (and I have myself one from germany, shot in far 1909) but never see one live.
And never see(real or picture) one big like this one.
Sure a trophy as this is s Less common than one 140-150 CIC gold medal, maybe 5000 euros looks many money but we know that a big medal head can cost this price...

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Originally posted by Fallow Buck:

I know a stalker that has a waiting list of german clients ready to pay £5k to shoot a perruque...



FB

£5K !!! sorry but I wouldn't pay anything to shoot that,Ah well whatever floats your boat as they say.
I would shoot for nothing.... to do it a favour however .


Roebuckk222

Some stalkers like to hunt "oddballs".
Friend of mine had a Gemsbok in SA which had one horn that pointed straight down, and he was saving that for a German client who was will to pay a fortune to hunt it as something different, to me all it is,is a proper cull animal.
each to their own I suppose.