Here are pictures from last year and this year, same spot, looks to be the same deer. We had pictures the year before last but I can't find them now. I think this is the same buck with same rack for 3 years. Never seen it during daylight. What do you think, same deer? If so, is he always going to be about this size?
Is this the same deer??
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Shed Hunter
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Same deer and almost definitely will stay about the same
BSK
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Yup, and that's as good as he's going to get. Actually may have declined some.
Some bucks just don't have it. To have a top-end, you also have to have a bottom-end.
Some bucks just don't have it. To have a top-end, you also have to have a bottom-end.
SES
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Shoot that one. He's not doing the herd any favors.
backyardtndeer
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Think it is the same deer. Don't think he will improve from where he is now.
It looks remarkably the same. And seems to be no change from one year to the next.
BSK
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Having watched via trail-cam hundreds and hundreds of TN bucks "grow up," what I've noticed about watching bucks over their lifespan is 1) Big mature bucks usually start as big younger bucks. In that, I mean most big mature bucks were well above average bucks when they were 2 1/2. Now that's not always the case but is true in the majority of cases. 2) The few "average" middle-aged bucks that suddenly explode at maturity are unpredictable. You can't look at them and say, "Yeah, he's going to be the one." 3) Only very, very rarely do very low-end middle-aged bucks turn into something great at maturity. If they have a crap rack at 2 1/2 or 3 1/2, odds are very, VERY high they will have a crap rack at maturity.
