Droptine Buck Was Harvested

Well...It pains me to have to tell you that the droptine but has been harvested. And yes...it wasn't by me. I was visiting a local store the other day after hearing that a droptine buck was taken by someone in that area and asked the ladies at the store about it. They proceeded to tell me about it and that their nephew was the one that harvested the buck. It was a 13 point droptine buck. I asked about it out of curiosity and the lady explained to me that the rack was in the barn. She asked if I would like to see it and of course, how could I turn that down, I said sure. She walked to the barn and brought out the rack, wow! it was different that's for sure. The rack was still in velvet. It never lost the velvet. From the video I took of it this summer, my first thought was that this was not the buck I saw in the video because I thought for sure it was out of velvet on the video and also, it had a double-droptine on the one side, this buck did not. The only thing was, everything else was the same with the rack. From the little knobs on the one side to the height, etc. I then talked to my dad and he told me that he thought the drop tine had broke off the one point that would have made it the double-droptine. I could tell that this was probably the case after he mentioned it. So yes, the droptine buck had been harvested. It was quite a unique rack - definitely a little odd but I still would have like to get that buck myself. I did find out later that the buck was taken in the same square that I was hunting, so close...

Now, I would like to talk alittle bit about my brother-in-laws 7 point buck. We used our deer aging tool to age this but and you can read more about it in the previous post but I wanted to post some pictures that I took while we were aging his deer. So, here they are...I hope you can see how easy it is to age your deer, just simply match the molds to the deers teeth to get the age.

So, here are the two photos that I took of us aging the deer.



Best of luck on your next hunt,