He got one!

[Mama Doe]

Josh is on the board! 4 point with a bad over bite. I'm guessing inbreeding? He said this buck bred a doe before he shot him lol

 

[stryker]

Congrats

 

[Tennessee Lead]

Weird! Congrats!

 

[Realtree]

Wild looking! Congrats

 

[bcartervol98]

Congrats!

My guess would be inbreeding too. When I used to hunt back in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s we had a lease in Weakley County in the Garret Lake area and at that time there was such an abundance of inbreeding due to the overpopulated doe to buck ratio that we saw tiny racks, overbites and my uncle killed a buck once that had 6 points on one side and an 11" spike on the other.

I am no wildlife biologist or anything but thats what I was always told caused it.

 

[LessIsLess]

Sorry to ask... But wouldn't there be inbreeding in most deer populations?

 

[Shed Hunter]

Sorry to ask... But wouldn't there be inbreeding in most deer populations?

Yearling buck dispersal is a biological event that reduces inbreeding. Bucks also almost always make excursions during the rut to areas out of their home range to breed as well. Does tend to live their life where they are born, but will also make excursion when in estrus.

 

[Snake]

:cool:

 

[stik]

Congrats!

My guess would be inbreeding too. When I used to hunt back in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s we had a lease in Weakley County in the Garret Lake area and at that time there was such an abundance of inbreeding due to the overpopulated doe to buck ratio that we saw tiny racks, overbites and my uncle killed a buck once that had 6 points on one side and an 11" spike on the other.

I am no wildlife biologist or anything but thats what I was always told caused it.

you were told wrong. inbreeding is less likely if overpopulated.

 

[Shed Hunter]

Congrats!

My guess would be inbreeding too. When I used to hunt back in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s we had a lease in Weakley County in the Garret Lake area and at that time there was such an abundance of inbreeding due to the overpopulated doe to buck ratio that we saw tiny racks, overbites and my uncle killed a buck once that had 6 points on one side and an 11" spike on the other.

I am no wildlife biologist or anything but thats what I was always told caused it.

you were told wrong. inbreeding is less likely if overpopulated.

Agreed Stik. Also that 6x1 deer was almost definitely not a result of inbreeding. Generally those one side antler abnormalities are the result of an injury to the body or pedicle.

 

[dixieman]

Congrats

 

[BigGameGuy]

Believe it or not "inbreeding" is one of the biggest falsehoods I hear over and over. I don't know where this notion is born but so many people think that inbreeding occurs with an overpopulation of deer. On the contrary inbreeding occurs when you have too few deer. Also pre-hunt ratios never skew much past 3 to 1 so out of balance buck to doe ratios aren't to blame either.

Your dear simply had an overbite. It is about as common as it is in humans. Simply put� It happens.

 

[mathews338]

Congrats to him!

 

[xtremedeerman]

Congrats

 

[shopson]

Congrats on the buck!

Few years back my sone killed this buck with normal rack and an overbite. Same year another deer was posted on Tndeer with overbite.

 

[wsm]

Good to get him out of the herd.

 

[102]

I have killed a few deer with the same overbite. All but one were killed over the course of 3 decades at AEDC.
Archie Whitehead (AEDC Area Manager before Wes Winton) told me they called it "Gump Jaw".

 

[Viper (tp)]

Congrats