this fella was checking out my camera,never saw a buck with one antler coming out of that location....wonder why? any thoughts??

could have been hurt,shot,hit on his right side last year. Injuries cause these types of abnormalities.

looks like he has abnormal antler growing out left side,ingury perhaps ?

When I first started using game cameras years ago I had a photo of a small buck 3 points on the left side and had a spike antler between his eyes.

for some reason an injury to one side of the body causes antler abnormalities on the opposite side of the rack.

Uranium.

Probably got too close to one of your lakes and got attack by a Northern pike,or Musky. Jeff F

Not a non typical. Rather a buck with a deformity. Frank

are you hunting near a nuke plant?

Try not to stare at it when you're talking to him.

Possibly a past auto accident that broke the skull and when it healed the antler petical(sp) was on the side of the head.

I would not have belived an accident like this could be survived until I shot a one horn buck one time that had the left broke off at the base and the right antler was only held in place by hide!! Totally cracked skull - antler was loos and I cut it off with my knife leaving a hole you could see brain through. Antler base was attached to about 2x2" of skull plate. Buck showed zero sign of pain or effect prior to the shot and all I can imagine is an auto accident.

I believe Bushbow is on it. While there is a strange connection between opposite side injury and odd antler growth, look at the way the antler comes out of the skull, I'd bet that that young buck got rolled by a car/truck when a button buck or maybe this Spring, and his skull plate bone is a little messed up.

Notice how the antler is closer to eye level.

Years back, my dad shot a buck almost exactly like this and it's skull plate had an obvious injury that busted it up.

Here's one I saw spotlighting last year. He stood about 15 yards off the road long enough for me to get a pic. He had a big body and looked completely healthy. I think he was an older deer, just didn't grow lots of antler. In this instance I don't think he was injured ever unless he was hit by a car and it rattled him on the inside.

You must need special permits to take pictures in Chernoble.

Not much for points but a great inside spread!

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