Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What antler charcteristic is your weakness?

You probably saved that poor buck from dying of a neck ache!

I will admit. It was a great tag. We looked over some nice bucks. Some would have outscored this one. Mass is definitely my weakness and this one had it in spades! First mass measurement is just over 8" on the one side.

Something like onto this! Buck I took last season in Kansas.

Kansas buck taken in Dec 2014 by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

I don't really have a lot of choice in my area. Stickers and trash, do get my vote....

This would get my attention!!!

Good mass with wide main beams looks best to my eye. I don't care as much about the tall bushel basket type racks.

If I get an antlered license, just the presence of antlers gets me.
Why do I see the wide 5X5's when the state sends me an antlerless license, but only forks when I get an antlered license?

Wow!

Saw a beautiful buck while elk hunting in Idaho one year. From the side his rack looked like a muley, from the front it looked like a whitetail. Pretty sure he was a M-W cross, but spent a few minutes just watching him.

The ones where some back straps and inner tenderloins are attached......

Then I would have gone out to meet him until he expired from a bullet wound.

I'm a sucker for mass, haven't gotten many with much. This one did it for me two years ago.

On Michigan public land I have a weakness for anything with at least one 3" point on at least one side.

Although w/ new antler restrictions it isn't that simple anymore which I hope means we won't need ringman-sized Hubel Space Telescopes atop our rifles to know if deer are legal before long, at lest in some areas.