Cactus buck, learn one new thing per day
This was the thing i learned today. Came upon this article. Never heard of such a thing. Been a deer hunter since I could hold and shoot a rifle. 61 years old and today I am a little more educated than I was yesterday.
Eight-Year-Old Hunter Tags Cactus Buck With Gnarly-Looking Permanent Velvet Covering Its Antlers and Face
Beau Pruitt was hunting over a food plot when he shot a whitetail with abnormal velvet antlers caused by a condition called cyptorchidism.
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Never heard of such thing. Without knowing the condition, I don't know what Ida done had I saw him.
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Strange, I never heard of such. Thanks for sharing that.
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I hope that kid has many more good hunts because I doubt he will ever top that buck!
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That's just weird...
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congratulations to the young man
once in a life time buck
I have to wonder if the buck could even see very well or if it could have survived , JMHO its eyes looked almost completely blocked off by the growth
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That is interesting, thanks for sharing.
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Must have been downstream of the Savanna River project😮
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I have heard of this but never seen one like this for sure. I am happy for the young man that harvested it, it will be a lifelong trophy. I am also happy due to the animal's limited eyesight, it was taken humanly and not killed by predators.
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I had never heard of them so I googled cactus buck and came up with some amazing pics.
Below was my favorite.
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...Deer hunted several states, mostly my home state of Texas N/S/E/W...and never heard that term, must be a local thing...makes for some fugly antlers...
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It looks more like the deer has Fibromatosis to me, it comes from the papilloma virus, also known as deer warts. The reason I say this is account of this year we have been seeing this one buck with all these lesions about it’s neck, and face. I’m looking at the article I brought up a couple months ago but I don’t know how to post it. Just Google deer lesions, or deer warts and it should come up. Bottom line humans can’t contract the disease, but if lesions are large and look to be open they recommend not to eat the meat. It also seems to be only bucks that get it and not so much does. It also goes on to say that some deer get over it and they believe that they have an immunity to it after that. The theory they say why it is in bucks more is that they fight and break the skin and it is passed from one to another that way.
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Not going to eat anything that loos like that.
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Nope, not even too keen to handle one that looks like that. Nope.
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