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My hunting partner, NMSHOOTER on here, got this one a few years ago here locally.

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That’s cool

I shot this buck with a xbow in 2016 in SW MO. European mount and had the skull bronzed

Have had two opportunities on freak bucks but could not close the deal.

The first opportunity was on a West TX rock outcropping trying to shoot a crazily palmated buck. A strong wind pushing up the rock face made a steady hold impossible. The wind was so strong that even though I had the sling wrapped it was vibrating like a guitar string. The only opportunity that could get the scope on vitals was a standing freehand shot & even though he was only 80 yards away I couldn’t be sure of a good shot as the barrel kept buffeting upward with the gusts coming up the rocks. He was killed on the neighboring ranch the next week and was a 6x8. The palmated sections between the “tines” were a minimum of 5” tall between the g2 and g5. The rack looked more like a moose than a whitetail.

The second opportunity was a thumper MT whitetail that had a 70+” typical 5 point rack on one side and a double main beamed mess of short tines, stickers and kickers on the other. He’d busted me and pushed a doe off a canola field and down into a deep cedar-choked draw before I had stalked to my planned intercept point. I saw him weaving his way down the canyon wall through the trees but he never offered a clean shot. I lost several nights of sleep over that one!

I shot this one a couple of years ago with a hole in his antler also.





I got this guy showing up at one of the feeders now. Hope to put an arrow in him soon.

Cool bucks fellas!

Kirk, that's about as peculiar as I've seen. And pretty cool.

Not a deer, but I got this freaky looking elk about 15 years ago. I think he'd been head butting a Mack truck. His skull was deformed.

This one had some palmation and some oddity to it (SW WI).

Man, he's a hammer Scott.

One of my buddies shot a buck where the horns went down alongside the head and there were 2 little forks below the jaw. He thought it was a doe. We never even thought about saving the head but looking back we probably should have.

I haven't shot a freak, but my BIL has:

At least I think this will qualify.....

Nothing as cool as others, but this was one we wanted to get gone. No injuries were noted during skinning or butchering.

This one was a little weird.

This one was gay. He definitely had low testosterone. I think that he was a 2 1/2 yo. I thought it was a doe.

That is a nice one.

This is my son's first deer. I think that it must have been hit by a car earlier that year while the rack was growing. It had several healed up wounds on his neck as if he got beat up by a vehicle.