Check this little guy out. From one of my cams.

[HUNTER2]

 

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[JohnWester]

i'd cull that deformed thing outta the herd... it will mutate all the others.

[Cody Gruchow]

might of hit it on something. or it just grew like that. have to thin that one out of the herd. great pic what kind of cam do you use?

[HUNTER2]

This is the I40 Moultrie. I also have the Game Spy by Moultrie.

[bowhunter73]

  I think it is deformed due to an injury of infection of some sort in any case I would not worry about bad genes. I for one would like to see just how unusual he would look in a few years if given the chance.

[HD]

I would have to agree with bowhunter73.....
I think it was just an injury, they are so soft when growing that it doesn't take much to mess them up while forming. I know this because the neighbor has tame deer in a pen area. Sometimes they get messed up from just rubbing their heads on the fenceing.

I would wait till the next season to verify.....then if it's still messed up...

My 2 pennies........
Hunter

[Auggie]

   Antler deformation from injury usually occurs on the opposite side of the body from the injury. A good example is one of my bucks broke his left hind leg in the chute one year. From then on his right antler was was deformed. Many times when damaged during velvet the deer get an infection and may even die. I will get pictures of a bull elk I will be putting in the freezer shortly that busted a pedicle on his one antler and it grew out before up because that is how it healed. Many things could have caused this. Genetics is most likely not one of them.