Distinct Features

[Mike Belt]

My buddy had pics on several occasions this year of a buck we nicknamed Muley. He erased them before I could get a copy but he has a very distinct rack that will make him easy to distinguish in the future. He's a perfectly symmetrical young mainframe 10 pointer and right now he scores about 110. His G2 and G3 on both sides are a fork just like on a mule deer. His G4s and the end of his main beams are also a fork just like a mule deer. It looks just like you took a mule deer rack and swapped it over to a white tail deer. Anyone have any really unique racks that instantly let you know just which buck you're looking at?

 

[BSK]

Mike,

Twice I've photographed "muley racked" bucks on my place. However, the two bucks were so many years apart, I doubt they were related, even though they look similar.

The first:




And the second:

 

[BSK]

But as for "distinctive features," every year I have a buck or two with very unique antler characteristics. This year, I had two.

The first was a buck with a double left beam:


The second was a buck with a messed up right antler:

 

[WORM82]

Only got pics of this guy last year. Don't know what happened to him since?