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Non-typicals

Ok, moment of admitting I'm dumb here- since I started hunting a few years ago, i'd thought a booner was just a random name for a big big deer. It wasn't till this thread and reading about you guys being a broken tine or an inch off that I realized it's a reference to the Boone and Crockett cutoffs lol. I suppose I do need one of those spoon and crockpot club tshirts having not shot a adorable deer yet lol. (Edit- that was supposed to be "not shot a score-able... Lol) All in time...
 
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I think this one falls moreso into the "character" category than Non-Typical, but I'll throw him on here anyway, because I really like him:

2021 Snaggletooth Halloween Vampire Archery Buck

Minor palmation and odd forward facing sticker point on right side:
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All kinds of weird crooked mass on left side:
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Pictured next to my dad's buck to show mass and chocolate bases:
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Oh yeah, and this little guy...
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That counts as a drop tine, right? :tearsofjoy:
 
MNFarmHunter said:
Forget the atypical, this fella had a jacked up nose.

Seriously though, I’l love to even see a deer with points that thick.


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No, my kids were playing
Bouncy ball downstairs!!!! Grrrr!!!
 
DB4x4 said:
I think this one falls moreso into the "character" category than Non-Typical, but I'll throw him on here anyway, because I really like him:

2021 Snaggletooth Halloween Vampire Archery Buck

Minor palmation and odd forward facing sticker point on right side:
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All kinds of weird crooked mass on left side:
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Pictured next to my dad's buck to show mass and chocolate bases:
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Oh yeah, and this little guy...
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That counts as a drop tine, right? :tearsofjoy:
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He looks real big and funky when you have the 4 year old hold him... :eek:
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I had this really cool 1-1/2 yo living on my property. I would see him in the field all the time I wanted to see what he would grow into but he didn’t even make it to archery season. He got smashed on the road…

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Then there’s the one in my profile pic.

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Nothing too crazy just some neat genetics going on with this buck. I shot this one at a dead 99 paces with an open sighted 1187. I didn’t realize it at first but after the shot (and I was below the deer at that point) it just disappeared. I figured I missed. It was the first deer I ever ran after!! When I first saw it. I was sneak hunting up during a fresh snow and snow was falling as well.
Seconds before my buck, a knary, wide something or ever was right on the trail of three does, none of the deer knew I was even there. The buck that passed had a typical left side but wide but his right side was like a huge spike that went lateral to the right. I really was hoping I’d catch up but then I herd a swish to my left and this buck was on the same trail as that weird buck and three does. Our eyes met at the same time and as I slowly started to move to get the 12 gauge up, he bolted to my direct left. I watched him for a few seconds and sure enough he started to loop back tierd that other breeding party that went before. I sprinted another 30 or 40 yards to cut down the distance and as he got to an opening I squeezed the trigger. As I said previously, the buck seemingly disappeared. I started to slowly move up to a pine tree that was near the vicinity of where I shot st the buck and I posted at that pine for a good 20 minutes hoping more bucks would come by to go up the ridge to bedding. I finally turned around to my left to look in that direction and there he lay 20 yards away in the deep snow. Just parts of his rack and from shoulders were visible at first as when I shot he collapsed into a low spot filled with more snow. I almost could have left that deer without ever knowing!!!
 

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This was my target buck during the ‘21 season, no drops but just a very almost mule deer type of rack. I called him “double-double” but he actually could be called “triple-double”with so many bifurcated tines. I first located him in 2019. Sadly for me, this is not my victory photo a property across the steep gorge from the property I hunt took him in early November that year. I think I almost cried when I found out. He has 2 split G2’s double crab claws and one split G3 14C2E82B-0914-45CC-8562-F7062BCEF0DD.jpeg
 

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