#1732753 - 01/18/10 05:48 PM
Re: Once an 8pt always an 8pt?
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You simply cannot compare penned deer with wild deer. It is like comparing the housewives of Orange County with the housewives of Atlanta. Two different species.
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#1732809 - 01/18/10 06:22 PM
Re: Once an 8pt always an 8pt?
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....and sometimes, 8 is enough! 
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#1733168 - 01/18/10 08:40 PM
Re: Once an 8pt always an 8pt?
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Either or, Genetics is the KEY!
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#1733181 - 01/18/10 08:47 PM
Re: Once an 8pt always an 8pt?
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Wow what a buck. I thought mine had some tine length. But that's crazy
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#1733389 - 01/18/10 10:20 PM
Re: Once an 8pt always an 8pt?
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The buck was raised on an all-you-can-eat corn diet. At 7 1/2 he was still growing about the best rack he ever had--a 110-class basic-frame 8. Then he was . . . . . . switched to a high-protein diet. At 8 1/2 he grew a monstrosity of a rack (170+ basic 12-point plus kickers if I remember correctly). And this is just one more strong bit of "antedotal" evidence for why I've been saying feeding corn can be COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE in addition to all the other problems associated with feeders in Tennessee. When corn is being fed, deer may eat a lot of the low-protein corn INSTEAD of the higher-protein forbes and natural browse, resulting in smaller antlers, not larger antlers.
I have been telling people for a long time corn makes smaller racks and they call me crazy. I try to explain that you can feed a milk cow all the corn she can eat and not get any milk. She will get fat and the farmer will go broke. It take a different ration to get best milk. Same with antler growth. A deer full of corn will not eat as much good food. They will be fat with a small rack. Some will never understand nutrition.
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#1733541 - 01/19/10 05:59 AM
Re: Once an 8pt always an 8pt?
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You can feed a buck anything you want. No matter what you feed them, you still have genetics and age to consider.
Now throw in sterhoids and the whole deal goes off the scale. Take down the fence and burn the feeders and now you can do some biology.
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#1733685 - 01/19/10 07:55 AM
Re: Once an 8pt always an 8pt?
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Either or, Genetics is the KEY!
Genetics only provides the blueprint and potential. Nutrition allows for actual expression (growth) of potential. If nutrition isn't adequate, a buck cannot express much of his potential.
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