First"Brownie" & Unusual 3 Pt.

NVPete · Feb 12, 2014

Pretty exciting for me today...saw two nice bucks packing. I was hoping to just maybe find "whities" from last year. I kicked out what appeared to be does at pretty close range up a wash, and not ten minutes later found my first "brownie"!

Then a bit later, this unusual 3 point with dropper brow tine...and a concave base rather than the usual convex shape. Anyone know what causes this?

Tractor · Feb 13, 2014

Nice finds!

I found one like that 3 point last year,pretty neat base on it

Pines_N_Tines · Feb 13, 2014

Nice job NV,

The odd ones are trophies and very fun to find. Only three small whites for me so far this year.

My neighbor was out chukar hunting a few weeks ago and found 17 last years whites on a 200 yard ridge. He said it was awesome to find 17 in 10 minutes with 4 matched sets in the bunch. Sure made me jealous.

I took my 12-year-old out last year and found a 2 point similar to yours.

Here's a couple of pics.

nvbones · Feb 13, 2014

wow sweet find. what part of the state are you in nvpete

nfh · Feb 13, 2014

Sweet find. I have found a couple of whiteys/muleys that way.

Almost like is has no density. Maybe a stag deer or injury? Who knows

PumpJack · Feb 13, 2014

I have read that a concave base usually means an overly mature animal long past its prime, maybe poor nutrition, or possibly abnormal testosterone levels. I believe it was in the book "Antlers" by Dennis Walrod that I read this.

PumpJack

WYO_ATL · Feb 13, 2014

I was always led to believe that those antlers are from bucks that had EHD

NVPete · Feb 13, 2014

Wow! Thanks for everyones input. I really gain a lot of insightful as well as cool stuff from this site and I am grateful for everyone's participation.

jm77 · Feb 13, 2014

PumpJack is right. I was able to keep track of a muley buck back in the late 90's until he was about 12. His antlers started doing the inverted base at around 9 or 10 yrs old. His best rack was at 5 or 6 yrs, clean 4x4 typical 182 with estimated 20" spread.

trophymuley · Feb 15, 2014

There's a buck like that on antelope island that grows weird every year. He always has his antlers late in April. My theory is it is a type of cactus buck that grows antler but when it gets below freezing, the bone in the antler becomes frost bitten and dies. Thus the reason they usually have velvet very late Or of they even shed it at all. The concaved base is the inner bone mass that never froze and as the antler begins to grow in where the dead bone is the antler slufs off much like an antelope husk
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