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Will a droptine buck throw it again?

DMarley83

DMarley83

DMARLEY83
So have a question of will a drop tine buck throw it again?

Here is the scenario

2023- 3 or 4 year old 150s typical frame with a couple kickers or splits

2024- 4 or 5 year old 160s frame, same kickers and splits. Adds a heavy 8 to 9 " main beam drop tine.

2025 - 5 or 6 year old 170's frame. Same kickers same splits, no droptine.

What happens next year???
 
I hunted a unique buck for 4 years (yes I think he made it to at least 8). Each year he had several stickers and kickers. One year he had a 5” drop tine. I am going to say he was 6 years old at that time. The two years after his drop tine he didn’t have one.
 
Not a drop tine, but a "third beam" buck once upon a time. It was very prominent when he was 5 and he was so close to me that I could hear him breathing! But...I shot a different buck in that moment, the one that he had been jousting with and had gotten behind me. By the time I got all turned around, in super slow motion, to shoot the non-third beam buck, the third beamer came all the way to my tree huffing and puffing...but I didn't dare try to pivot back on him with two shooters within 10 yards.

Mr. Third Beam grew another third beam the next year, but it was 20% the size of the previous year AND he broke it off. Drats! Of course, I shot him that year and all I have to show for the third beam is the nub where it was. :)
 
Don Higgins talks about a droptine buck that threw it every other year. Never know with genetics, that's the beauty of them..
 
Not sure about drop tines as that really rare round here.
Here's pics of a pair of sheds from a buck I knew for years.
From 4_8 years old, he held the same basic frame but he always grew some kickers in different spots.
These are his 6 and 7 year old sheds.
6 year old, both browtines, 7 years old, no browtines and when I killed him at 8, he had one browtine.
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203ntyp said:
I would think they "might" but not necessarily. Depends on his health/diet or any injuries or illness. Just my two cents.
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Agree with this. He needs a year of “no stress” like Injury, parasites, bad winter, etc. Then if he has a really good growing season in general with ample nutrition- he puts on trash again.
Those are all “IF’s” He might as lost a drop cause of “parasites” or whatever.
I do see them having this unusual “super good healthy year” & see deer blow back up though
 
There's a really good chance it comes back if he doesn't go through some big stress event this winter.

Have been fortunate to personally witness it twice.
 
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