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Before you answer I have more picks but a quick story about both of them.
The white rack we found the day my youngest son shot his first turkey when he was 10yrs old and he is now 21yrs old. The deer had been dead a couple of years already. I just stuck it up on the barn with some of the other racks but always thought it was a cool rack and would liked to have seen him alive.
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The other rack I found yesterday while out shed hunting. I couldn't believe it when I saw how much it resembled the rack I had on the barn.
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The first thing that caught my eye was the flattened out beam on the right side.
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/skulls5.jpg) (http://s904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/?action=view¤t=skulls5.jpg)
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/skulls8.jpg) (http://s904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/?action=view¤t=skulls8.jpg)
So does the other rack.
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(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/skulls7.jpg) (http://s904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/?action=view¤t=skulls7.jpg)
More picks coming!!
Tracy
That looks like the same gene pool to me. It would be cool to do a DNA test :)
It would be really cool to sneak up on somethimg like that during the season....
Nice finds !!
I would say they were probably kin folks.
If they are from the same local, I'd bet the farm that they had some genes that connected in the family tree.....kind'a neat.
The left sides both have crazy splits in the tines.
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/skulls3.jpg) (http://s904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/?action=view¤t=skulls3.jpg)
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/skulls2.jpg) (http://s904.photobucket.com/albums/ac248/TmPotter47/tipi%20picks/?action=view¤t=skulls2.jpg)
Having trouble with Photobucket sorry.
Tracy
I think there related too but I wanted to get everybody else opinion too. There is at least 10yrs difference between them and they were found about four miles apart witch I know is plenty close to be blood.
I just can't believe the similarities between them and that it would carry down that many years later. Sure typical's are one thing but it's hard to find two non typicals that close.
Regardless, I hope I get a shot some day at one of there kids passed down and I am going to clean them up and re-stain the racks and try to fix the chewed spots. I plan on displaying them in my shop together and I'm happy to have them. :D
Thanks for looking!!
Tracy
I no scientist but from the looks of the racks my gut feeling is they came from the same gene pool.
I am no biologist or scientist either,but would say the 2 are related in some way.
Don't think so bud!! It's obvious to my experience eye that one of those was an antlered doe. Of course I could be wrong about that. LOL
:D
You don't happen to have a turkey tied up somewhere I could poke a hole in?
I don't know about the rest of you but I can hear the banjo's playing. They are definately from kissing cousins.
Awesome antlers Tracy! I'd say that first one is the great, great, great, great Grandaddy of the second :) There is something to that genetic thing ;)
I can try and run one down for ya Charlie, I have been running alot lately :scared: :bigsmyl:
You bet we can find a few to hunt around here and glad to have you. They have been gobbling pretty good when I have stopped by on the way home from work scouting. :D
Thanks Mike, I'm pretty sure I have picks of the new one yesterday in 08.
Tracy
For whatever it's worth, I agree with everyone.
Too many not so common similarities.
Definitely related.
No doubt, very cool.
Absolutely Not related Just like Just like Billy and his twin brother Bob!
Great Finds
Heck yeah buddy! That's too cool!
Deer are often born in two's just wonder could they be brother twins ????????
:clapper:
That is cool! Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:
I think so, great find.
in the first pic I would say no.
yep it looks like the same genes to me.
Good finds :thumbsup:
I'd say so. That's kind of neat. I like a rack with character. We have a 3x3 gene around here that's pretty strong. Wish some Massive Non-Typical would stop by some November!
I think they are related as well. Mabey we will see some of the other relations on the hoof. Great pics Bud!! Talk to you soon.
I would say yes. The gene pools in my hunting area are track able for the last 20 years.
I'd say they were branch kin at least.
there defintly got to be related
Yep,nice find(s) Tracy!!
From what few bucks I've seen living (while hunting) I have no doubt genetics can produce nearly identical racks.
Unfortunately, I began noticing this because they all had the same deformities.
On the flip side there is strand of AMAZING 3-pointer genetics running through my woods. Can't decide whether a 100+" 3-pointer is bad or neat.
Cousins, brothers, father/son...twins?
Yes to all the above.
You've messed up now though...you'll be searching for #3 the rest of your life ;)
Dad and Lad-Hap
Definately swimming in the same gene pool!
:cool:
yup
perhaps brother and sister???? :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
Oh sweet mystery of life: I finally found you....
:)
They sure appear to have some coomon genetics. Deer racks in our area have a couple common traits that show up over and over through the years. Any thoughts on the comparison of the "Hole in the Horn Buck" killed over 50 years ago and the "Beatty Buck" killed within the last ten years. They have lots of common unique features and were killed in a close proxomity of each other. I'll bet there has already been testing done on both to see if they were related.
Way cool racks...
Nice find bud..
Todd