Ever seen a smaller 8-point rack?

[ThePushArchery]

J

I got ya beat! Give me a day or so after today's hunt, and I'll snap some pictures of a set of antlers from the second buck I killed back when I was 14 I think.

He is an 8 point smaller than that!

[twistedlim]

Shot a 7 point almost identical to that a loooong time ago.

[fisherick]

My brother shot a Vermont 7 point that was smaller than that 20 years ago.

[maineac]

Here is one that has shown up at a mock scrape I set up (date is wrong).

 



His body is the same size as a spike and forkhorn that have shown up at the same scrape.  Funny thing is the 8 only shows up after dark, the other two show up at anytime.

[Tim]

My buddy Mark found a shed in Kansas last year that fits in the palm of my hand.   It looks like a rack you would see on a little porcelain deer from a gift shop.  A perfect 4 with a sticker off the base of the main beam.  It's the coolest thing I've ever seen.  I made such a fuss over it he gave it to me and it sits in a stone bowl on my kitchen table.  I'll try to get a photo up later tonight.

[stickandstring]

My guess, could be a european roe deer.

[Chris O]

Cool rack! Im always curious what deer like that would look like in a few years.

Heres a pic of a similar sized whitetail from my area in 2010. First time I saw him in person I figured he would go on and make a monster one day. Hopefully hes still running around.

[JLyle]

I have a picture showing the skullcap from the back.
http://mobth1101.photobucket.com/albums/g422/JLyle777/th_LittleRack4.jpg

[JLyle]

and it was going so well...(sigh). Posting pics is a pain, some times.

[Tim]

Here is a photo of the Kansas shed.....so cool!  

[straight_arrow]

Tim, with a little luck I'll find the other side in November!

[Pat B]

This is a deer I shot many years ago. It came from Beaufort Co. SC right next to the Victoria Bluff WMA between Bluffton and Hilton Head on what is now Colleton River Plantation. It is a 10pt but the kicker is he still had his milk teeth so he was only 1 1/2 years old. You can see his jawbone I used to age him under the rack.

[Gila Mike]

Never saw an 8-pt that small but in the early-1980s I killed a 6-pt in East Texas that was smaller than that. It was a nice symmetrical rack but the whole thing was about the size of a grapefruit.

Bad genes? Poor diet? Who knows?    

Mike