New Year’s whitetail hunt

D_Dubya

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It was exceptionally warm for us over new Year’s in south Texas, highs over 90 and lows around 70 Sunday thru Tuesday. Saturday AM was reasonably cool, I killed the junkiest buck I have ever seen:BBB81457-75CC-47C1-BE97-DA227972B215.jpeg
We had been trying to kill this buck for 3 seasons, only buck I have ever seen stay a spike several years in a row. I seldom shoot whitetails myself but this one has to go and I was alone.

Sunday afternoon my daughter caught up with a nice mature 10pt, one shot from her 243 did the trick.
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Monday evening my son got an older 8pt:
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Tuesday morning my son videoed a real nice buck that my wife wants to go after this coming weekend, hopefully we can find him again. Had to come back to town to work for a few days but headed back down on Friday.
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Colorado Cowboy

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Is the jaw bone from the spike you killed? The teeth are really worn, probably contributed to the antler growth. How much fat did he have? I have also seen outlandish antler growth from bucks that are stags......no cajones.
 
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D_Dubya

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Is the jaw bone from the spike you killed? The teeth are really worn, probably contributed to the antler growth. How much fat did he have? I have also seen outlandish antler growth from bucks that are stags......no cajones.
Yes, the jawbone is from the spike. It has some wear which is typical of our 4 year olds; but not nearly as much as our average 6 year old bucks. (We pull the jaws from all our deer for aging, 50 - 60 per year…tooth wear is not an exact science but it’s reasonably accurate for aging). His antlers are just defective I guess. His testicles were normal, no other abnormal signs about him. Hocks were stained to the ground, he was still fat and he was running does. We are at the tail end of our rut. hopefully he wasn’t very successful this year.