wis_bow_huntr

what difference does it make, they all eat the same. You cant eat the antlers anyway.

TeeJay

The part that I have a hard time believing is that "Clyde" had those antlers at 18 months.

njbuck22

I agree, i have seen spikes at a year and a half that have grown nice racks at 2 and a half. The only way to tell is to let them grow up and see. Im sure there are a couple of instances where a spike has remained a spike but imo i think thats the exeption rather than the rule.

monsterbucks2011

i dont think you can tell by a 1 1/2 but none of those deer are even spikes and they feed them all the nutrions they need to get big. i can hardly belive the forks rack at 2 1/2 he is like a 115 the next year.

JimPic

and sauteed onions

CNYhunter

North American Whitetail did a bigseries on thislast year. They took spikes and four points of the same year and ear tageed them and watched them grow over the years.The spikes turned out just as big if not biger then the four points over the years.

takedownfreak123

I don't think it makes a differences. It is usaual there first set of antlers.

ABarOfSoap

hey can u post the site u got this from, im intersted in seeing a better pic

pigiron

SPIKES?.......Killed plenty of-em.

IL-Cornfed

It's been consistently proven thatover the vast majority of the whitetails range, spikes can and will mature into large healthy animals.I can't imagine for the life of me why ANYONE would want to shoot a yearling buck? You've got to let 'em go! Good luck and goodhuntin'