How did they grow a 1,000" white tail buck?

[Chase This!]

I have 6 generation pedigrees on my deer. Absolutely amazing how much the bucks have progressed in six years. Deer like these didn’t exist 15 years ago (well, maybe rarely) but are now quite common. Genetics! It’s all about genetics!!!

[RMW]

If the recipe for a 1000” deer is simply 40 years of perfect nutrition, selective breeding, and zero stress, then we should see many, many deer that developed in the 200 to 1000” range along the 40 year span. Where are all the 400, 500, 600”, etc. examples?

In this case, this deer jumps a gap 600-700” wide in just a few generations.

Unless bio science has isolated the genetic code that controls antler growth and can manipulate it without having other non-desirable characteristics (doubtful) or this 1000” example is a once-in-a-100 million random freak, then something else is driving antler growth to this level.

It is statistically unlikely that selective breeding can account for such a large change in a short amount of time. Evolution in genetics expressed in antler size just doesn’t work that fast, that far, without help.

When you see videos of these giants and they can’t even hold their heads up, that’s a good indicator of an outside influence since having a rack that big runs counter to a survival-of-the-fittest strategy that is genetically determined over millions of years.

This breeder grows the largest deer in world, typical and non-typical. He has plenty deer in the 400-700 range before he grew this one. Pretty sure he is a Mennonite in Pennsylvania, he has bought lots of semen from Texas breeders including high roller and Major league whitetails which grow some of the biggest deer in the country.

[Greenheadless]

[Greenheadless]

My wife’s cousin got a doe with a horn once,
not sure what it measured… 😳

Was this a metaphor?

[100%TtId]

If it was “all about genetics” why don’t we see 12,000 lb. Wagyu beef steers, 50 lb chickens, and 40 lb. largemouth by now?

[GA Bowhunter]

I have 6 generation pedigrees on my deer. Absolutely amazing how much the bucks have progressed in six years. Deer like these didn’t exist 15 years ago (well, maybe rarely) but are now quite common. Genetics! It’s all about genetics!!!

Those are your deer? Do you give farm tours?

[Txhunter3000]

If it was “all about genetics” why don’t we see 12,000 lb. Wagyu beef steers, 50 lb chickens, and 40 lb. largemouth by now?

Probably because the money isn't there..

[Txhunter3000]

Guys with small genetics need deer with big genetics.

[Chase This!]

Those are your deer? Do you give farm tours?

Those are High Roller deer. Best in the biz! A lot of my deer came from there.

[Landrover]

Oh wow. This thread has gone all over the place.

[HTOWN]

From some people post, you'd think Double Down does this to the deer.

[trophy8]

From some people post, you'd think Double Down does this to the deer.

Hell yeah brother. Double down and skim bucks!

[Gerald G]

Not really pointed at any particular member

[Sasqy]

I could use a lil sprucing up at the ranch !
Where can I get some of these drugs?

[Chase This!]

From some people post, you'd think Double Down does this to the deer.

I had a spike turn into a 220” after 17 years of feeding him DD. Lot’s of deer pop at 18 on DD.