Same Buck?

Hey Everybody! Last year I had an encounter with a buck I call Bday. He was my number one buck and I'm positive he made it through the season as I have pics of him in January. On my last card pull I have pics of a decent buck and think it could be him. Looking for opinions. Let me know!

Here is pics of him last season





The pic of him last January



These are the recent pics that I believe are him.

 

Beautiful deer. Going by his brow tines he appears to be the same. It looks that to me, anyways. His left is a touch taller and a tad more bent than the right and it seems to have carried over.

 

I'd say so.

 

I think it is the same buck.

 

I'm on the other side....I'm thinking different deer....not looking at antlers but other physical characteristics

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Which ones you referring to?

 

The main one is the split right ear in the newer pic...also the left ear shows a little indent on the outside edge as well....not that things don't happen...I don't know I'm back and forth on this one but I can't decide yet

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Other than the antlers, I think a similarity is the shoulders. Both have very strong shoulders.

 

Man, i'd like to say its the same deer but I just cant tell. I use to think I could pick out deer from previous years in my area and I'm wrong half the time I think. I've seen deer with nice racks like that come back the next year and have a completely different rack the next. Only reason I know they were the same deer is by a physical body mark like a scar.

 

If it isnt the same deer it came from the same gene pool! great looking deer!

 

The thing is we don't have a lot of different bucks around us. I know of two other shooters that probably made it and I doubt either is the buck I recently got pics of. Here they are. First one I call Big Eddy and the second I call Gator.

 

The throat patch is very similar also...

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I'm going to be in the minority but I think that it is a different deer. The deer this year look like he's a younger deer by the way his neck blends in to his chest. Also as has been pointed out, the cuts in the ear are also different. Same gene pool without a doubt but I'm going with different deer.

 

That's exactly what I was thinking! I agree, it's probably the same deer. Good luck with him.

 

I second this^ we could be wrong though, to me it looks younger and the slits in the ear is different.

 

I wouldn't bet the farm but maybe a mule and a couple chickens that is the same deer.

 

I don't think it has any cuts in it's ear/s, I think that's just a different color. I'm saying same deer.

 

Looks like the same deer to me. Good luck getting him.

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i'd guess same deer.

 

Alright Everybody!

Here is the latest update on the Buck I call B-Day. I guarantee it is the same deer. A lot of sleepless nights ahead of me.