Morgan's Point Bucks...Including One With Toenails

[BowVista]

We like to take the kids out to Morgan's Point (by Belton Lake) to look at the deer that hang out in the neighborhoods. I usually see a LOT better bucks than this, but I got a few decent pictures tonight.



We've had some friends who live in that area telling us that they see an unusual number of deformed or freak deer, and I've never encountered it until tonight. Saw a doe who was missing most of her leg. Didn't look like an injury, but I suppose it could have been. Also saw this buck, who had LONG front hooves. Looked like he had big long toenails or something. If you look close at the pics you can see the deformities on it's front hooves.

[cantexduck]

crazy.....

[thebomb6_99]

if we could only hunt that place

[kfd82]

There is a place in harker heights near stillhouse lake that has TONS of deer. I think the neighborhood is called broken bow or something like that??? anyone know? There is an old fire station there that we used to run an ambulance out of.

[Smart]

That toenail deal is some kind of genetic disease or trait..

Great pics will....We used to live in a place like that near Canyon Lake and what I wouldn't have given to have the ability to shoot a few of them as a high schooler.

[DPElite]

That deer needs to go get a pedicure good lookin deer though

[wes122984]

very weird

[Cajun Blake]

strange looking stuff to me.

seen it before but only in magazines


nice pics and thx for sharing



cb <*)))>{

[Bad Habit]

i have seen that when animals live in small pens and cannot work down the hoof naturally.

[Buff]

I was told the long hooves were a sign of Blue Tongue. We lost several deer to it last year in Mason

[bbinford]

there is a lake like that not too far from here. Alot of weird deer due to inbreeding!

[BowVista]

there is a lake like that not too far from here. Alot of weird deer due to inbreeding!

Yeah, that's what I've been told by a few folks around here. They say the deer are really diseased and deformed because they've never been hunted, and are so inbred. In Morgan's Point, the deer seem more like pests than anything. This particular neighborhood is impossible to drive through after 5 p.m. or so without stopping multiple times to avoid deer that just stand in the middle of the road.

[tommy1005]

horseshoe bay used to be like that too, but with all the new development and traffic the deer have now gone elsewhere, there are still some there, but not near the numbers there used to be

[primative]

haha thats cool

[ShockValue]

My dad has a boat at the Morgan's Point Marina. It's alway cool driving (slowly!) through the neighborhood on the way and checking out the deer.

Never seen the one with toenails, though.