I have tons of pictures of a buck we call "Ghost" he is old and white (even his velvet appeared grey/white)... Anyways I was looking at old photos from the same area in 2011 and I found a pic of a buck I think might be him. But that buck had a gash in his ear... I looked at ghost and he appears to have the same gash just healed over... So what do you think? Same deer? Could the ear regrow that portion?
Yeah - I thought it was weird. This is a pretty secluded area; no hunting pressure besides me... and I have a pretty good inventory each July of whats there. So, it seems like it would be the same buck? Maybe I should change his name to "wolverine" from the comics - he can regrow his limbs right? ha.
I think they are different. The one with the "healed ear" looks to have a shorter head compared to the other. and the cut on the deer on the left looks to big to heal over as well as it looks to have done by the first picture. but i could be totally wrong. We may never know
I don't know, my in laws had a buck that lived behind there house and frequented their apply orchard up until he was a 5 year old. He got a notch in one ear when he was 2, and it was there for the rest of his life. Other than this buck, I've never seen one year after year to know if they heal or not.
I don't think it would heal back up, not that much anyway. Although I've been proven wrong before. Either way, great buck(s)!
I have to say same deer, just going by the shape of the tear on the lower portion compared to the healed. It has the same outline. Do you have any other older pictures of him? Wondering if maybe the tear had a flap on the top portion that was bent back when the pic was taken. It's definitely odd, but I'd think it would be even odder to have two very similar bucks with that kind of identical injury.
