This years spikes

[Mouse]

All of our spikes were yearling spikes and we let all three of them walk. Will be interesting to see how they fare over the next 3 years. They may never be a 150 class deer but there are plenty of old junky bucks to take out before you start taking off the youngsters. Just my thoughts.

[trophy8]

I'm tired of popcorn. Think I'll have some sour patch kids this time....

[M16]

Here's a picture of "Tuffy" my camphouse pet. He was a spike and now is 4.5 years old. I can tell it's him by his deformed ear. He may not ever grow into a monster but we shall see.

[unclefish]

Here's a picture of "Tuffy" my camphouse pet. He was a spike and now is 4.5 years old. I can tell it's him by his deformed ear. He may not ever grow into a monster but we shall see.

KAPOW! That's good stuff M16.

[Shake N' Bake]

Here's a picture of "Tuffy" my camphouse pet. He was a spike and now is 4.5 years old. I can tell it's him by his deformed ear. He may not ever grow into a monster but we shall see.

Where I come grime he is already a monster!

[Shake N' Bake]

got my popcorn ready

Pass me some please

[muzzlebrake]

Drought definitely had an effect this year. We know enough about our deer herd to know that on good years our 1.5 year old bucks are usually 8 pt with an occasional 6pt. By 2.5 most are small 10pts or nice 8's. This year we had many 2 year old spikes, forks and lots of yearling spikes and buttons. Now that we have had some near record rainfall to break the drought and there is lots of high protein green stuff we have our hopes up that these young bucks will come back to normal on horn growth. Fed protein all of last year and still feeding both protein and corn. Time will tell.

[BlackHillRanch]

[QUOTE=M16;4850412]Here's a picture of "Tuffy" my camphouse pet. He was a spike and now is 4.5 years old. I can tell it's him by his deformed ear. He may not ever grow into a monster but we shall see.
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When was he last a spike Larry? 1 yo?

[M16]

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Here's a picture of "Tuffy" my camphouse pet. He was a spike and now is 4.5 years old. I can tell it's him by his deformed ear. He may not ever grow into a monster but we shall see.
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When was he last a spike Larry? 1 yo?

Yes, at 1.5. He was a seven at 2.5 and a nine at 3.5

[BlackHillRanch]

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Yes, at 1.5. He was a seven at 2.5 and a nine at 3.5

Interesting.. we never shoot 1.5 yo spikes any way!!

[Sippy]

Dont worry about spikes, in 3-4 years you wont be able to tell a difference- Also coming from biologists.

[West Texican]

Dunno about spikes so much, but everybody I talk to -- including one of the most respected lodge-hunting operations in the South Texas brush country -- says the antler scores this year are down 15%. In some areas, it's off 20%.

[mesquitecountry]

With arguably one of the hottest and driest years on record there is no way I would shoot a spike. We haven't had spikes in 2 years and this year we had 3. They all walked.

Why would we assume animals should perform better under high stress when no animal on earth does, humans included.

I haven't shot a spike in 6 years an coincidentally I have 15 plus deer from 3.5-6.5 that score between 140 and 185.

Coincidence maybe, but I doubt it.

Not saying I'm an expert but go ahead and keep shooting those spikes, I'll keep putting big bone on the ground.