Antler growth this year

[BSK]

Personally, I think a better assessment of antler growth from year to year is looking at how much the 3.5yos added to 4.5 and the 4 5yos that survived added to 5.5 this year.

Prob selection bias, because the 2.5s and 3.5s aren't targets for us ..

But for sure, this year's 4.5 and 5.5yos didn't add nearly much this year from last year as compared to years past. Pretty disappointing actually. None went downhill, but none made significant jumps from last year like we often see...

VERY interesting.

 

[Popcorn]

Personally, I think a better assessment of antler growth from year to year is looking at how much the 3.5yos added to 4.5 and the 4 5yos that survived added to 5.5 this year.

Prob selection bias, because the 2.5s and 3.5s aren't targets for us ..

But for sure, this year's 4.5 and 5.5yos didn't add nearly much this year from last year as compared to years past. Pretty disappointing actually. None went downhill, but none made significant jumps from last year like we often see...

This for our mature bucks exactly
But we have an explosion of 2 year old 100 inch 8's

 

[deerhunter10]

Average last year below average. We do have a deer that'll go high 140s. Still don't have all my cameras out we have a couple farms that don't hold a ton of deer on the in the summer. Will get them out this weekend and see where these farms are at. Overall for thr drought and all I'm actually a little surprised. Good spring and just that one week of hard cold and a surplus of acorns last year probably helped with getting back to normal. I haven't seen above normal in several years.

 

[BSK]

Average last year below average. We do have a deer that'll go high 140s. Still don't have all my cameras out we have a couple farms that don't hold a ton of deer on the in the summer. Will get them out this weekend and see where these farms are at. Overall for thr drought and all I'm actually a little surprised. Good spring and just that one week of hard cold and a surplus of acorns last year probably helped with getting back to normal. I haven't seen above normal in several years.

Agreed.