Got a friend in GRANTVILLE good genetics in that area
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2024 Velvet bucks
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Most of y'all won't care, but I'm watching the third generation now on my fourth year in Texas, and we love watching their herd dynamics. This is my deceased three-legged deer (RIP, coyotes, March 2022), last daughter and 2023 grandson. His antlers are still growing; most of the other 2023 boys have stopped growing at this point as far as I can tell. I think he's going to be a big one. Five points, and the left side may still split into giving him six this year. His grandmother was the alpha queen of the herd; he's got good genes there at least. She'll probably run him off in the fall, and I'll lose track of him. But for now, he's hanging around with his mom. Maybe those low nubs will grow out and he'll be a seven or eight at 18 months. Second picture is Grandma and mother, day before the coyotes got grandma
I agree, they're definitely a step a head than the rest to have a massive rack.
Very interesting. This is new to us, but he's definitely an outlier, certainly width-wise. I attached another picture below; this guy has taller antlers (he's 1.5 also, I THINK), but they quit growing some weeks back, and he's only a four. As you say, the vast majority just have little nubs at 1.5 years. Bumper crop of boys last year in my neighborhood... like eight of nine surviving fawns are male. That one and this one are the only notable ones.
