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ND Late Season buck
Mule Deer
Contributors to this thread:
No Mercy 14-Dec-21
SBH 14-Dec-21
No Mercy 14-Dec-21
No Mercy 14-Dec-21
No Mercy 14-Dec-21
HUNT MAN 14-Dec-21
Shug 14-Dec-21
Iowabowhunter 14-Dec-21
BOHNTR 14-Dec-21
deerhunter72 14-Dec-21
Paul@thefort 14-Dec-21
GhostBird 14-Dec-21
JL 14-Dec-21
No Mercy 14-Dec-21
Buckeye 14-Dec-21
jmiller 14-Dec-21
Bowaddict 14-Dec-21
Matt 14-Dec-21
Z Barebow 14-Dec-21
Bowaddict 14-Dec-21
ND String Puller 14-Dec-21
No Mercy 14-Dec-21
Bow Bullet 14-Dec-21
Beginner 14-Dec-21
SteveB 14-Dec-21
drycreek 14-Dec-21
Bwana 14-Dec-21
No Mercy 14-Dec-21
kota-man 14-Dec-21
midwest 15-Dec-21
Milhouse 15-Dec-21
DanaC 15-Dec-21
No Mercy 15-Dec-21
BULELK1 16-Dec-21
orionsbrother 16-Dec-21
Ron Niziolek 16-Dec-21
Jasper 17-Dec-21
Mark Watkins 17-Dec-21
Bowboy 17-Dec-21
Shaft2Long 17-Dec-21
Beav 17-Dec-21
Beav 17-Dec-21
Medicinemann 17-Dec-21
Ridge Runner 17-Dec-21
Timberking 17-Dec-21
Genesis 18-Dec-21
No Mercy 19-Dec-21
From: No Mercy
14-Dec-21

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I was able to watch this buck bed Friday morning and get myself in range for a shot. He only went a short distance and expired.

From: SBH
14-Dec-21
Thats awesome. Congrats!

From: No Mercy
14-Dec-21

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I had noticed he had a limp, but it didn’t seem to lesson his bravado over the other 4 bucks in the group. It was fun to watch them fight each other before the stalk. Turns out he had a weird hoof.

From: No Mercy
14-Dec-21

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Bedded and resting.

From: No Mercy
14-Dec-21

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He had zero body fat. I’m assuming this is because of his hoof and it being post rut.

From: HUNT MAN
14-Dec-21
Congrats

From: Shug
14-Dec-21
Congratulations

14-Dec-21
Nice!

From: BOHNTR
14-Dec-21
Way to go, Jason!

From: deerhunter72
14-Dec-21
Love your smile in the first pic! Congratulations

From: Paul@thefort
14-Dec-21
Hey Jason, fun stuff those late season hunts. Most hunters are sitting in front of a fire with a hot toddy but you are out there after them. Nicely done.

From: GhostBird
14-Dec-21
Cool buck... congratulations.

From: JL
14-Dec-21
Congrats. I have seen that type of hoof before in a deer. I don't know what causes it though.

From: No Mercy
14-Dec-21
I asked a biologist and my uncle-who is a lifelong farmer...both said he had too much corn in his diet. Makes sense as there is still standing corn fields in that area.

From: Buckeye
14-Dec-21
good job!

From: jmiller
14-Dec-21
Nice work Jason!

From: Bowaddict
14-Dec-21
Nice buck! Can’t remember clearly, but thought I read somewhere that ehd or blue tongue survivors develops that also???

From: Matt
14-Dec-21
Congrats

We've seen javelina that were in corn get founder as well.

From: Z Barebow
14-Dec-21
Nicely done Jason!

From: Bowaddict
14-Dec-21
Nice buck! Can’t remember clearly, but thought I read somewhere that ehd or blue tongue survivors develops that also???

14-Dec-21
Congrats Jason! I read that EHD can cause hoof problems as well.

From: No Mercy
14-Dec-21
We did have EHD pretty bad in that area...and there was a smaller buck still in velvet in the group, so it definitely could be Ehd.

From: Bow Bullet
14-Dec-21
Way to go!

From: Beginner
14-Dec-21
Looks like a very healthy deer even with the bad hoof.

From: SteveB
14-Dec-21
Congrats!!

From: drycreek
14-Dec-21
I’d say the lack of fat pretty well blows the corn theory, and I know nothing about EHD, but congrats on your late aeason buck !

From: Bwana
14-Dec-21
Way to go!

From: No Mercy
14-Dec-21
Thanks everyone-it's fun when a plan works out once in awhile!

From: kota-man
14-Dec-21
Rock star…congrats again Jason.

From: midwest
15-Dec-21
Congrats! Mild late fall/winter out there so far?

From: Milhouse
15-Dec-21
Congratulations Jason!

I doubt corn did that.... I can't believe it develops that fast. That happens over a long period of time, in my opinion. I've never seen it in deer (whitetails) that basically lived all winter long in unharvested corn fields.

From: DanaC
15-Dec-21
Nice one!

Will you be incorporating that unique hoof into a mount?

From: No Mercy
15-Dec-21
Midwest-yes so far very mild.....((knock on wood)) Dana-I did save it but don't quite know what/how to do anything with it yet. Any ideas?

From: BULELK1
16-Dec-21
Heck yeah-------->

Congrats,

Robb

16-Dec-21
Congrats!

From: Ron Niziolek
16-Dec-21
Good stuff Jason!

From: Jasper
17-Dec-21
Heck yea!!!! Congratulations buddy

From: Mark Watkins
17-Dec-21
Huge congrats Jason! Those late season bucks are tough to sneak on!!!

Mark

From: Bowboy
17-Dec-21
Congrats thanks for sharing

From: Shaft2Long
17-Dec-21
Nice!

From: Beav
17-Dec-21
Congrats!

From: Beav
17-Dec-21
Congrats!

From: Medicinemann
17-Dec-21
I shot a Mountain Goat with a similar type of hoof. Obviously not just related to corn.....

From: Ridge Runner
17-Dec-21

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Congratulations on a fine deer My brother shot a buck in WI last year that had similar hoofs , Some people told me it was slipper hoof ( also said to many carbohydrates)

From: Timberking
17-Dec-21
Congrats, nice buck.

From: Genesis
18-Dec-21
I think Santa needs to put a curfew on some elves…..

From: No Mercy
19-Dec-21
Appreciate it guys-it was a fun and memorable hunt!

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