Injured

[Otter]

I have this deer in my yard. He is always dragging his front right leg. I was told the injury effects the opposite side antler as you can see in pic's.  Any thoughts ?

[Roon]

Yep got one just like that at my house

[3Blade]

My thoughts… he is a cool buck and I would kill him, but yeah injury causes that type of growth

[Nomad]

Is there a screen on your bathroom window?

[archer36]

If it affected his antler, then it's an old injury that he is coping well with. No sign of him being physically sick beyond that. I would kill him. Not because of his injury, but because he's a nice deer. If you are waiting for his antlers to get bigger, they may be deformed and not matter. 

[Otter]

He is a cool buck but never in my yard during daylight hours.  Nice size deer for a pine buck

The pic's are a little fuzzy, took them with cell phone off of the computer

[jumpthestring]

36 minutes ago, Otter said:

He is a cool buck but never in my yard during daylight hours.  Nice size deer for a pine buck

The pic's are a little fuzzy, took them with cell phone off of the computer

If you shoot him after Dark, I think that is called poaching >

[Otter]

Correct, that lack of daylight does not stop some people

[JD48]

36 minutes ago, jumpthestring said:

If you shoot him after Dark, I think that is called poaching >

Not in the Pines

[Live to Hunt]

Some idiots would say stop the suffering and shoot him. They know who they are 

[MGHunter66]

 

Take him if it’s something you want to shoot but injured bucks racks aren’t always affected each year. We watched this guy for 3 years before we felt he was good enough to take

[archer36]

33 minutes ago, MGHunter66 said:

 

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Take him if it’s something you want to shoot but injured bucks racks aren’t always affected each year. We watched this guy for 3 years before we felt he was good enough to take

His rack looks perfect!

[MGHunter66]

11 minutes ago, archer36 said:

His rack looks perfect!

Yep, wasn’t always. His injury continued on but he gained weight and developed a normal rack as time went on. 

[archer36]

Just now, MGHunter66 said:

Yep, wasn’t always. His injury continued on but he gained weight and developed a normal rack as time went on. 

Interesting. Maybe because of the extended time he had the injury, the body was considering it "normal" and not effecting antler growth. 

[MGHunter66]

17 minutes ago, archer36 said:

Interesting. Maybe because of the extended time he had the injury, the body was considering it "normal" and not effecting antler growth. 

Maybe, don’t know much about it but he eventually seemed un phased by the injury. Just became part of his life