ive heard several different things from different people.but i want someone who knows for sure is a spike always gonna be a spike.im talkin two inch spikes not a cow horn.i passed on a spike last night he was about 20 yards and probably about 140 pounds i figured id let him live an see what he looks like next year.but ive heard people say you need to shoot them because they will never be anything but a spike.did i mess up or not by letting him walk.ive got a nice 8 point this year with my bow and a doe 2 weeks ago.no need to shoot him unless he is gonna pass on those spike genes
I seen a progression of pictures of a buck one time. He went from spike to 150" ten point in a few years. Not saying that always happens but ya never know. In Ohio, your allowed one buck. I'm sure as hell not wasting it on a spike.
I don't claim to be an expert. However I feel pretty comfortable in aging a deer. In our area, we've killed a number of spikes that were anywhere from 1.5 -3.5 years old. They simply were never going to get bigger. Our camp is a meat camp anyhow. So if it's brown it's down.
We kill a lot of mature bucks, and very rarely are they wall mounter material. (for me a wall mounter is 130" or better). Most are around 100"-110", the bigger ones are 120".
I've always heard this. But I highly doubt there is any truth in it. I think I saw the same documentary where a spike went to a 10. It is better to cull by age in my opinion. So an example a 2 1/2 yr old spike should be culled.
i did some reserch once on this topic and on many ocasions the first year of horns they were spikes the study i found was on 10 different deer of equal age but none of them grew horns the same the most interesting one was a 2.5year old 6pt went down to a 3.5year old cow horn spike and at 4.5 he went to a nice 8pt and that was a deer that they altered the protein during horn development to make a point
so in the wild your guess is as good as mine
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