Y'all Help settle this....

[wtx223]

Posting up originals would help.
I think it is an old stagged buck that is super fat and distorted picture.

[gekko man]

I don't see it being a WT. Tail is not right, and it appears to have a dark coloration on it's forward neck/shoulder area, and I don't see any hocks. If that were a normal "mature" whitetail anywhere in the state, this time of year, the hocks would be black to his feet. Not only are these not black, it doesn't appear they are even there. For instance, an axis or sika deer have no traditional hock on the inside of their rear legs... This is what I see here. Don't have a clue what species of deer it is, but I sure don't think it's a WT. Thing is as big as an elk almost...

I agree...the tail and neck don't look right!

[mpotts]

Mega giant

[TildenHunter]

After looking at this article I am thinking you have a Sambar deer???? Scroll to pic all the way at the bottom.

http://huntforever.org/2016/01/13/trophy-in-the-mist/

[CastAndBlast]

After looking at this article I am thinking you have a Sambar deer???? Scroll to pic all the way at the bottom.

http://huntforever.org/2016/01/13/trophy-in-the-mist/

That could definitely be it! Great find!

[breederbuck33]

There is nothing at all that say photoshop to me.. Just a big ole mystery animal! I'd put my money in the stag jar, but there is no telling!

[J McCoy]

I've got a couple of ideas


possibly Barasingha

or

Eld’s Deer



or

Pere-David



I'm voting Eld's Deer

[TildenHunter]

We have an Elds deer on our place and it doesn't look like the OPs animal.

[Encinal]

It's a WT.

The game camera is in the same spot in relation laterally to the feeder, but a heck of a lot lower to make the second deer look like a monster.

This is why you always want to be as low as possible when taking your Ldp's in relation to your kill.

[TildenHunter]

It's a WT.

The game camera is in the same spot in relation laterally to the feeder, but a heck of a lot lower to make the second deer look like a monster.

This is why you always want to be as low as possible when taking your Ldp's in relation to your kill.

I get what you are saying but I don't think so. Look at the bottom of the motor box on the right hand feeder. You can see the same amount of the bottom enclosure on both pictures.

[Encinal]

I get what you are saying but I don't think so. Look at the bottom of the motor box on the right hand feeder. You can see the same amount of the bottom enclosure on both pictures.

Because it's zoomed in to fit.

Where is the info bar in the smaller deer pic?

[TildenHunter]

I guess I didn't do a very good job explaining the first to round. I may be wrong and I have no idea if it's a WT or not I just don't see how zooming in would effect this view on both pics.
Zooming in on one wouldn't create the same or different view of the bottom of these pics IMO.

[TildenHunter]

Because it's zoomed in to fit.

Where is the info bar in the smaller deer pic?

You see what I was talking about above? How does this change with zooming in or out? I am not being a smart A**, I honestly am curious if you could have a picture taken at two different angles and achieve the same view by just zooming in. To me it seems like the underside of the circled area would be skewed if the camera took pictures at vastly different angles.

[AntlerCollector]

Not the same deer it appears, the one on the right is an 8 point . The left has no brow times .

This^^^^^ made me lol. Thanks for clearing that up

[CastAndBlast]

You see what I was talking about above? How does this change with zooming in or out? I am not being a smart A**, I honestly am curious you could have a picture taken at two different angles and achieve the same view by just zooming in. To me it seems like the underside of the circled area would be skewed if the camera took pictures at vastly different angles.

Agreed...


and Why does it not have a lighter color on the belly? Inner legs are light colored, but belly is not colored like a white-tail.