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To me the 4pt looks 2.5 With little potential but I could be wrong? Is this 9pt older with a junk rack or a 1.5 yr old with a lot of potential?
 
I think both are too young to tell what they'll be one day.. You never know until they've had a few years to grow..
 
I normally dont even pay attention to young deer but this year I dont have any shooters on cam so ive just been looking at what I have and thinking of what could be in the future. Plus SOMETHING has to go on the chopping block for my 8yo. He dont really like the fact that it will probably be a doe this year lol. He has taken 3 bucks and one nice 9pt (his first).
 
If you have does around the bigger bucks will show up. I get plenty pics of some really nice bucks all summer and hardly any does but from mid august on thru hunting season I might get 1 or 2 pics of one of the mature deer and that's it.
 
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too early to tell age but they both look pretty young and both look like potential to me. I really like the fork horn, he might end up being one of those big 6 points. the fork only looks 1 year old to me but then again there's no way to tell
 
Both are yearlings. The bottom buck has exceptional potential. On average, the largest antlered mature bucks started as large-antlered young bucks.
 
WORM82 said:
If you have does around the bigger bucks will show up.
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Even if you don't have does, bucks may still show up as the season progresses. I have few does that use my place, yet it is flooded with bucks during the hunting season.
 
BSK said:
Both are yearlings. The bottom buck has exceptional potential. On average, the largest antlered mature bucks started as large-antlered young bucks.
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So true.

Any bets on whether that bottom buck survives his first year with antlers? :D
Doubt he makes it to the end of October.

Even the 1st 4-pt yearling has great potential should he live to 3 1/2 or older.
 
MUP said:
mike243 said:
1st is 1.5 #2 is 2.5 imo
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I'm thinking the same thing. That forky has a lot of potential I believe!
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That 2nd buck with so many points is simply a healthy yearling. Although his antlers will be much less impressive (for a yearling) when that velvet comes off, the simple fact that he has so many "points" will greatly increase his probability of being killed soon by someone considering him "a good bow buck" (which I place in the same category as "cull" bucks in TN, i.e. no such animal exists).

If you consider him a "trophy", take him and accept my congratulations. :) But you then have no basis to complain about the lack of older larger antlered bucks in your area.

And, yes, that forky also has a lot of potential.
But that yearling 9-pt has great potential to become a large 11 to 12-pt mainframe (plus lots of "stickers"!) should he survive to 3 1/2 or older.
 
Any bets on whether that bottom buck survives his first year with antlers? :D
Doubt he makes it to the end of October.

That's what I'm worried about. There is a trailer park behind the farm and hunters all the way around and shoot anything with antlers. And usually say " I thought he was bigger". Or the trailer park dogs run them off 90% of the time. We have managed to take 4 wall hangers off this farm over the years but have let NUMEROUS deer walk hoping they make it. I dont consider these deer "trophy" deer at all IMO. We try not to shoot anything less than 3.5 unless it is a kid hunting.
 
Would like to see pictures of them now. Bucks can put on a huge amount of muscle from August to November.
 

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