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These are two young bucks from last year
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And this is my young stud from this year
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My question for the old timers or anyone who wants to answer is this, do you think either one of the deer in the first 2 pics are the one in the last pic this year? If so how do you tell?
 
Thanks Rem. That's my plan to give him 2 more years! But I was asking if he is either of the top bucks and how could I tell if so.
 
Yep, I think so. Notice the buck in the first pic has 4 legs. So does the one in the last pic. :D

Sorry. Couldn't resist. ;)
No idea how one could even tell, Dude. There are no tell-tell marks to look for.
 
Not sure but deer in first buck looks like Dee r I let walk on my farm so the neighbors can blast away like they are boon and Crocket two points..
 
SNAG said:
My question for the old timers or anyone who wants to answer is this, do you think either one of the deer in the first 2 pics are the one in the last pic this year? If so how do you tell?
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It's certainly possible, but I don't see anything in those pics to say, other than can't rule it out.

Saying this with the assumption the first two pics were yearlings last year, while your young stud is 2 1/2 this year.

If you have a lot more pics of all, and can "zoom in" looking for differences, you can often find something unique to a particular deer. Such unique markers can be things like a scar, torn ear, shape of throat patch, the edges of white vs. brown coat, etc.

Once we get to 2 1/2 and older, antler characteristics can be pretty unique markers, although many are going to be more similar than different in the case of mainframe 8-pointers. Going from a yearling 1 1/2 to 2 1/2, the antler changes are commonly so dramatic that it's hard to believe it's the same deer. But if your first buck were a yearling 8-pointer, I'd bet against his regressing on the number of points when going to 2 1/2, while going from big spike to big 5-pointer is very plausible.
 
By the way, a "white flash" homebrew can be a huge advantage when it comes to finding some unique markers to identify a particular deer. This is one thing I'm not liking about the blurry black & white nighttime images typical of "infrared" and black flash cams.
 
As always I really appreciate the time you take to answer Wes. I have some more pics that I have been scouring through but we had about 6 yearling bucks last year and was a 4 point I just found and I'm still looking for some matching characteristics to compare. Either way in 2 years I hope to have a real nice pic of this 2 1/2 yr old in my truck. lol!
 


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