This past deer season was by far the weirdest that I've ever experienced. I. Sure it was a combination of hot weather, an enough acorns that you couldn't comfortably walk I'm any patch of hardwoods in middle tennessee. I saw the usual doe groups that call my property home, but bucks were few and far between.

We are surrounded by ag land, and usually starting in October we have new bucks show up, and we will continue to see new buck on cam all the way through February. This year was completely different. We started the year off with the usual batch of 1.5 yrOlds, 1 2.5 yr old 8, 1 3.5 yr old 115" 8 pt., and a 6.5 yr old 6 pt that had pedicle damage since he was 2.5. Other than that, we had 2 other older bucks show up all season. 1 3.5, and 1 4.5. With nothing else on the menu I decided to devote my season to the 6 pt. I've let this deer walk the last 2 years for no reason other than I had bigger deer to spend my time on. He usually disappeared in November to return in late Dec, but this year he was a homebody all season. It still took me until Dec. 22 to catch up to him.



Ended up killing 4 does as well to fill the freezer.

That is a cool buck. I love those unique trophies far more than huge racks!

Congrats

West Tn here, and yes it's been the weirdest deer season I can remember with temps in the 70's for the two weeks of the first of December. With all that said, the big bucks were being killed during that time which is our peak rut. I also hunt with surrounding ag fields and hatchie bottom woods. Congrats on your buck.

East TN here, I’ll agree it was an odd deer season. I ended up killing a nice one the week of Thanksgiving.


I think any mature buck is a trophy and I like the odd ones with character.


Congrats on a great buck

That deer appears to have a body on him. Any idea on weight?

Very nice buck.

I like the odd ones, too.

That's a cool ol' buck - congrats!

Those odd antlered deer are cool. We had one here on the farm this year that we called Rudolph because his antlers looked like a reindeer.

What a cool looking set of headgear!

Any injury to his right side noted?

I didn't weigh him. I would have loved to, but I just didn't have time. He was a hoss though.

His pedicle on that side appeared to have been damaged

Muzzleloader season started out slow...It picked up during rifle season but was still slower than years past.

Nice buck, congratulations

Nice buck!

Interesting buck. Congrats.

Congrats, nice big body Buck. I like the odd ones with character.

Thanks guys!

What a cool deer!
You could fashion his left antler into a meat fork for the grill!!

6.5 years old looks like a wise ole buck, but he teased the wrong guy. Congrats

Nice deer for sure, congrats

Nice deer. Unusual season for me too. I didn't see any 'shooter bucks' while hunting this year, but of course saw several in the yard eating my bushes.

Congrats on a very nice buck!

Nice job ! Interesting bucks are trophies.

cool buck

congrats!

Shot a buck very similar to yours in Alabama back in 1998. His left side was partially palmated across the fork. Don’t know the exact age but he was past 3.5. Went 170 on the scale. Couple of other guys had seen him but not shot because of an 8 pt rule on the land. I satisfied myself he had permanent damage after watching him 15 or 20 minutes and popped him. Sometimes it’s best to ask forgiveness after the fact. I’ll see if I can drag his rack out of the horn box and get a pic.

Nice buck. Cool rack.

congrats

Neat buck, good mature deer to take

Definitely odd antlers.