triple drop tine buck

[trout whisperer]

http://www.outdoorpressroom.com/outdoorpressroom/2009/02/winter-claims-minn-triple-drop-tine-buck.html

[kingfisher1]

man, that's a massive buck! wish I could see that during deer season at the cabin!

[trout whisperer]

that is one pile of antler..........quite the way to find a set of sheds.......

[stevejedlenski]

nice rack. the deer on the otherhand looks like it was shot drug 20 miles by the neck and let sit outside for a week in 70 degree weather. i think i would get a different cape.

[22lex]

He had been watching this deer along with a bunch of locals for quite some time now and got lucky enough to find him when he hadn't seen him on the trail cams for a while. Great find and a great story.

I've got some other pics of how they found it, and what they had to do to recover it.
PM me your e-mail and I'll shoot them to you.
Alex

Congrats Matt S.

[HUNTER2]

Must have been a smart old boy.

[HUNTER2]

I would say that is only a single drop tine. It has to come off the main beam to be considered a drop tine. It also has to have a rounded point like a baseball bat. Kickers grow off the individual tines and eye guards and have a sharpened point. The drop tine is created by blood pooling in a damaged main beam when it's still in velvet and growing. 

[Mayfly]

I just noticed this. That is a friend of a friend and he sent pictures of this deer to my cell phone a few weeks ago. I'll put them on here in a little bit. Very nice deer!

[Mayfly]

Here are two: