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I killed this one in my yard years ago.

No but about forever ago my dad shot a palmated buck. Our deer tend to be small but not non-typical at all.

Shot this one behind my house about 75 yards



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Have one on the farm we have been after for a while. Five points one side and one 12" tall one side. We will get him this year. Hopefully

A couple years ago my wife shot this one. He has the bases of a big old buck but everything up above his brows is stunted. He was big bodied, had the most worn teeth I’ve ever seen on a deer, and stunk like an old Billy goat.

And we have a place about 15 miles from where that one came from that about 25 percent of the bucks grow one normal antler and the other will just be a nub. Neighbor killed one years ago that had 9 points on one huge side and a knob about like the last 3” of a shovel handle on the other. Been that way for years out there. I shot this one last fall with my bow. The short side isn’t broken, just grew that way.

A guy killed a palmated buck in Ozona around 77, had forgotten about that buck.

My father killed a rather unique specimen a couple of years back.

I was with my dad when he killed this creature years ago. He’s a 9x13.

Forgot about this one he got in Kansas but that's out of state, not our place so slipped my mind.

Shot this one last year. Rio7

Killed this one 3 years ago.Rio7

How about a screwed up AXIS?? Rio7

Screwed up rack, Normal 10 on the right, left side no g-1 and much smaller. Rio7

Real old buck no teeth. Rio7

A buddy has one that's very similar to this one. 17 or 18 points.

Yeah, we used to have a few palmated bucks and one who had a single long spike running around the land I hunt. We started shooting them in preference to better bucks and seem to have cleared up the gene pool now. I shot one of them, had kind of a knot for one side and a very small moose antler on the other IIRC. Meat was good though.

Hole above my left hand and that side is stunted.

I shot one similar to this about 20 years ago.

Yep. Took this mulie off a co-worker's place in the TX Panhandle about 3 years ago.

I've got one with a similar hole. I think it's from a fly larvae in the velvet. Also have an 8 point with the whole left side about half the size of the right.