Posted on 10/28/2017 8:01:55 PM PDT by Strac6
Stan Ethredge had monitored the deer for years.
He owns hundreds of acres and watched from his deer cameras as the deer’s antlers grew six points about four years ago. They were normal size and shape then.
This season, when it came back, its antlers had changed. They were a mass of twisted tines and knobby bases. Ethredge decided to hunt it.
"As soon as I got the crosshairs on him, I shot," Ethredge told the Clarion-Ledger. "He's eluded me for years, so I didn't want to let him get away. I shot him as soon as I got the chance. I felt pretty good about the shot. He turned and ran away the way he came. I sat there a while and it was the longest hour of my life."
As it turns out, Ethredge bagged a rare catch, a 36-point deer with a 16-inch spread.
However, the reason for the deer’s abnormal antlers is more science than mystery.
"Something caused the deer to stop producing testosterone," William McKinley, Deer Program Coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks told the Clarion-Ledger. "Sometimes, bucks castrate themselves on a fence. It's not common, but it's not uncommon. It could have been disease. It could have been a number of things. If a deer doesn't have testosterone, the antlers continue to grow. They never harden and they never lose velvet."
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
Where is the photo?
Weird Buck Ping...
The buck had a crossbow?!
I’m getting warnings of a bad website here.
AJC is Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Site is OK. Here’s a better link, though: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/2017/10/24/hunter-arrows-freak-nature/793951001/
The buck deer eluded him because the buck was unarmed.
Iguess THAT buck stopped there....
Lucky the hunter wasn’t bagged by the buck with the crossbow.
“The buck had a crossbow?!” WI IS a shall issue state:)
(Just kidding!!! God bless this dear, sweet, wise, mature lady.)
I have eaten deer a couple times and my mom made mincemeat with it. The first deer tasted gamey. The second one a bf poached so I cooked some of it (no point in wasting it). I should have sent him packing then though, did eventually. He went to Alaska and works as a guide. Back to the poached deer, ust have had some corn in its diet, was delicious. Pounded steaks and made round steak mashed potatoes and gravy.
He might have done a mercy killing but it was sad to read of the demise of a noble animal.
I’ve wondered why not a tranquilizer dart first (using something that would not prove harmful in the meat after cooking) and then slay the animal relatively humanely by cutting the jugular or shooting it in the head. I wouldn’t want to hunt in such a way, in any case, that the animal would take a long time to die after the fatal wound. I guess that makes me less of a man-brute than some hunters would be. But I would feel more at peace with God that way.
While it’s possible that animals have souls (the same term is referred to in the bible’s creation account as belongs to the human soul) they also do not have what we call a true moral capacity. What they do, they do from instinct, which in turn is a reaction to their environment. It wouldn’t be possible for the soul of an animal, if it existed, to go to hell, because it is incapable of making the moral choice between God and Satan. Its behavior is a factor of its biology and what it meets.
Yet the bible advises us that a righteous man is kind to (literally, regards the life of) his beast. It is a matter of showing honor to God, who created that beast.
36 point deer with crossbow? Deer had a crossbow?
he spent years waiting for a specific buck to grow antlers of a ‘huntable’ size.
given that antler growth depends on the amount of food available each year, his claim about watching this specific deer develop larger antlers each successive year is dubious at best.
But, . . . it is a trophy hunter after all.
I could care less how many points a buck has on its antlers, it means nothing. I’ll kill the largest (meaning heaviest body weight) deer that I find in a given year, or take what I can get.
the hunting gods are seldom beneficent enough to provide the ‘perfect’ deer to kill.
“36-point buck with crossbow”
who sold the buck a crossbow? That’s what I want to know.
WELL DONE!
What’s cheaper, Beer Nuts at 99 cents or Deer Nuts just under a buck?
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