Freaky archery buck pics and story...

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Here is a freaky buck that was shot yesterday.
It was windy out so me and my buddy went out hunting. Actually I was trying to pheasant hunt and him looking for deer. We hooked up and I told him I would be out and about. Well he went one way and I went another. After not finding any birds or seeing anything I made a drive out for deer. Found some doe's and a spike and when i came around a corner I saw this guy at about 75 yds. Thought there was sagebrush or velvet hanging from his horns. Well when he got skylined I saw it was horns. So on the phone I went to let Matt know I found a wierd NT. He ended up hooking up with me and jumped in with me. We found a deer bedded about a mile out under some sagebrush. We hoofed it out there and found it was a spike. Well on my hunt this year the small buck was off the group of the deer I shot so seems to reason that this fellow was not that far away. Well we followed where this spike went and lost him in all the holes out there. Then again we spotted some deer another 3/4 miles out. We snuck out to them and found a buck with 5 doe's. The buck was bedded in some sagebrush and could not get a look at him. We knew it had wierd stuff on him. We watched him for about 45 minutes and about 217 yds away. We decided to get closer and a better look at him. Got to under 100 yds and laid on some rocks and still could not tell if he was the right one or not because I messed up on thinking the buck I saw in the morning was way bigger than this one. I was way off as I only saw the trash together as he topped the hill. So I guess it wrong and was trying to figure out if worth going after.Matt decided to go after this buck and with the wind blowing hard out of the SW we figured it might be possible to get in there. He snuck back out and aorund the rocks we where laying in and came at them from the NW. He made it to the edge of the rocks which put him right behind some doe's. There was 2 doe's on this end and 3 doe's on the other end. Buck in the middle. The rocks and sagebrush they where laying in ran N to S. So knew then that the wind would not blow or swirl around and into them. I moved down and around some rocks to get closer and watch this event unfold. Well as I was laying at about 75 yds the doe on this end started staring at me. Finally the doe's stood up and stared at me with the buck still bedded. They did not seem to think much danger as they moved around and had 3 of the doe's staring my way. I was glassing threw some grass so knew it was not a total bust. Matt waited and what seemed like for ever the buck finally stood up. Matt came to full draw and put a thumping on him. Buck ran out about 20 yds and went over. Matt put a second arrow in him to make sure he was down for the count. Matt got to within 20 yds of them without them knowing. He did a awesome job at it also and filled his tag. Could not of asked for a better situation.
Only thing is when we got pics taken and started gutting this buck, This buck had no nuts. They where the size of pea's. We asked each other and where wondering if this buck could breed and put off offspring????
But anyways here are some pics and have to post a few so you can get the whole pic of this freak buck.
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LAST EDITED ON Nov-15-06 AT 08:28AM (MST)[p]The way you describe it, and from the pictures, looks like the deer could be classified as a cactus buck. I shot a deer this year that either had no testicles or ones that had not decended. A deer exhibiting those characteristics has a hormonal abnormality and cannot breed. Oftentimes these deer are nontypical and retain their velvet entirely or shed it at odd times of the year. It is my understanding that many of these bucks don't shed their antlers, but some do? The deer I took was a perfect typical and was in full velvet the first week of October. Congrats to your bud, that's a cool buck and an awesome stalk.
 
That is one freay looking buck, I have a buck on my property that I have been seeing for about 3 years and he has about 12 inch spikes and a bunch of little points coming out of his bases, this year they were real short points so not too sure if he was legal so we didn't take him. It would be interesting to see if he has not nuts, I figure he would be a stag because he never sheds his velvet. Never have found any of his sheds either but I figure he does shed as his antlers were quite a bit bigger last year. Should have taken him last year but didn't want to waste my tag on him as I was trying to get a big buck that was hanging around with him. I have seen a few bucks that are freaky like that, don't think they are all stags, somethimes they grow weird antlers because of injuries or sickness during the growing season. Pretty nice buck you got either way. That will make a very interesting mount... Congratulations on the successful hunt.
 
That is AWESOME! I'd love to shoot that buck , congrats and thanks for sharing it...
 
This is a classic case of a Cryptorchid Psuedohermaphrodite (Wa'd he say?). These are bucks that have testicles but they are not descended and there may not even be a scrotum that is noticable. Your post did not mention if the penis was normal, but sometimes even that is in the body and only visible in a fold of skin. These bucks are sometimes mistaken for antlered does but they are not (does can grow antlers in some cases). It has functional testicles (encased in fat in the abdominal cavity) because that velvet is shed and the antlers would have cast off this year. True antlered does are always in velvet and neither the velvet nor antlers are shed. If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I have a whole chapter in antler development and abnormalities (with pic of antlered doe) in my new book "Deer of the Southwest". Order forms are at www.deernut.com


Jim Heffelfinger
Wildlife Biologist and Author
 

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