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Knobber - Update

Ghost

Ghost

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I call this "THING" Knobber...

"It's" been in the area for several years.

You guys are messing around waiting for bucks to shed and I already have them growing next year's set!
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Must be a bummer to be growing new velvet when temperatures freeze and crack new growing tissue.

I have a real good idea of what's going on here but thought I would leave the door open for those of you that have some thoughts on this.

By the way, these pictures were taken last night...yes yesterday...see, it's snowing!
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Anyway....Meet Knobber!
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Re: Meet Knobber

Looks like a nice doe to me. We had a doe this year running around with about a 5-6 inch velvet spike running out her head, we never did get a shot at her
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Actually Fred could of shot it, but for some reason didn't
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Re: Meet Knobber

I was thinkin doe too. If you shoot an antlered doe can you put your doe tag on it?
 
Re: Meet Knobber

Ok...you guys are right, it's a doe...
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Now, lets get to the meat and tatters...
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Re: Meet Knobber

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Looks like a nice doe to me. We had a doe this year running around with about a 5-6 inch velvet spike running out her head, we never did get a shot at her
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Actually Fred could of shot it, but for some reason didn't
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Dito
 
Re: Update From January - Knobber

Gabe and I have named Knobber "The Freak"...

You won't believe these updated pictures of this deer...

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Re: Update From January - Knobber

Awesome, your very own cactus buck! You gonna whack him if you get the chance?
 
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Awesome, your very own cactus buck!

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ok...that's just not right...
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Whatcha got in the water down there Ghostie?
 
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Awesome, your very own cactus buck!

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Whatcha got in the water down there Ghostie?

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Ya whats the secret!!!
 
Re: Update From January - Knobber

I hope you get a shot at that freak! If I am right , I think deer like that keep growing there antlers all season and never shed so she could still get a bit bigger by the time bowseason opens . Keep us posted on this cool FREAK!
 
Re: Update From January - Knobber

cool buck, looks like he could get real nasty in the next few years
 
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cool buck, looks like he could get real nasty in the next few years

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Since it is living tissue, in our climate they would freeze in the Winter and "die back".

Normal testes development and related seasonal rhythms in male hormone (testosterone) production are essential if a buck is to grow normal antlers and maintain a normal antler cycle. Just as in the case of castrates and so-called antlered does, insufficient threshold levels of testosterone commonly lead to prolonged or permanent velvet antlers in otherwise normal appearing bucks. Such hormone deficiencies may result from disease, ingestion of toxic substances, certain nutritional deficiencies, injury to the testes, or numerous other factors than might alter a males normal physiology.


In northern regions, viable velvet antlers tend to freeze back during winter. In the South, however, continual growth of velvet antlers can lead to massive, tumor-like growths in some individuals. Such formations are known as a “peruke.” And individuals that grow them are commonly referred to as “cactus bucks.”
 
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