I was going through some of are trail cam and field photo's from this past season and thought you guys might want to see some of the odd things we saw.

Lets start out with some weird growths or knots. We called this little buck "bubble butt", Check out the softball size growth behind his back leg.
 
This buck has a golfball size knot on his jaw from either a impacted tooth or something stuck in there. We named him "Nothead"
 
This buck is named "G2" a 4 year old that we have been watching and he showed up this year one day with this big growth on his side behind his front leg.
 
It was gone by the end of the season, Wonder what it was.
 

More tomorrow!!

Tracy

Aliens?  :D  

How ya been Tracy?

All them weird growths, do you hunt near a toxic waste dump?  Truly an interesting coincidence, makes me wonder what is happening to your deer.

I'll be out to take care of g2 or some other buck out there      :D  Well at least scare 'em!!

? Crazy! Hap

I need to give you a call Kenny, I need to build a new bow and need some supplies.  :D  

I hope you get him Ryan he should be a good one next year.    

Tracy

Thanks for sharing.  I always look at the pictures I take with my trail camera several times.  Some things are easier to miss than others the first time.

How about some weird horns, This crazy buck has 10pts on this odd rack.

 

You can hardly see it but he has a palmated point coming off the right base and running down in front of his ear behind the eye. The brow tines are behind his ears and there are 2 extra points that curve downward right above his ears. I will be looking for those sheds.

 

Tracy

A combine had just come down turned around and was headed back up the field when this buck ran out and started feeding. When it came back he ran off with a ear of corn   :D  




At first I thought his rack was broken but nope he's a 4x1. This next buck has a broken base on the right side, It shoots strait out then swoops upward.



Tracy

I shot a doe one time that had a knot in her cheek.  I didn't see it until she had expired.  It was in her cheek though not her jaw.  Don't know what it was and never checked on it....but it looked like the buck you have pictured.

Any correlation between the bucks with the growths on their body and the ones with the goofy antlers? My understanding is that an injury on the body will often accompany abnormal antler growth.

That's a lot of crazy bucks in one area.  I had a small doe with a baseball sized lump on her face.  I thought is was an impacted tooth just like your "nothead".  Great pics.

You guys don't have any nuclear waste nearby do you?  I used to see a lot of deformities in the deer at Aberdeen Proving Ground but not antlers, just body injuries that healed back up.  They got hit by pieces of shrapnel and rounds downrange.  I shot a 3 legged deer there one time.

Ursus, You are right about injurys verses horn development but some times you can't see the injury.

I saw some where a doe with a big knot on here jaw like the buck and they cut it open and there was a big wad of grass stuck in there.

Another weird Whitetail buck



Tracy

reddodge, you werent hunting while they were shelling where you   , we crab about 10 miles up from Aberdeen, sounds like a war zone sometimes, but nothin beats MD blue crabs, plus that and you get to see all the cool aircraft flyin overhead

I even saw a weird Bull elk in Utah this year.



He gave me every shot you could imagine but I was stuck with a spike tag in my pocket. I love his eye guards.



He came right in to my cow call but never made a sound.



Tracy

I dont have any weird antler clips or anything like that, but I do have some cool/weird stuff while I was out hunting.  I self film my hunts, and the stills that I take from the film are not always the best, but sometimes that is just what you have to deal with. . .  Have you ever seen a huming bird do this.  One of the few times I was hunting in the stand, this little guy came and landed about arms length away from me up in the tree.  I got some truely awesome footy of him.  But he kept flareing his tail and it looks cool!

I've seen them do that when there fighting, Cool pick!

Tracy

I have never posted a video but I will try because it's worth seeing this buck we call crazy legs.

 

Didn't work so here's some picks.



He runs around on that leg like theres nothing wrong. I think he was born with it or broke very early on. I have tons of picks of him and several videos.



Tracy

Here's one with a bum back leg. Car injury?