YOUR FAVORITE ANTLER TRAITS

[woodseye]

I recently was reading what national surveys siad hunters like most in antler traits. Was wondering how the members feel on this one. How do you rate these features?

### ### MASS
### ### SPREAD
### ### TINE LENGTH
### ### WEBBING
### ### FREAK POINTS
### ### DROP TINES
### ### BALANCE

### We all have one or more of these features we dream off when that perfect buck walks out,but what is your favorite?

###woods







(Edited by woodseye at 12:24 pm on Feb. 1, 2002)

[Passthru]

###if i rated each on 0-10 with 10 being best and rate each one on its own scale.

###Mass: ### ### ### ###10
###spread: ### ### ###9
###tine length: 10
###webbing: ### ###4
###freak points: 5
###drop tines: ###9
###Balance: ### ###10

###I really like a good balanced set of antlers with mass and tinelength, a drop tine thrown in would also be great.
###That is an awesome buck by the way,i would have taken him regardless of my preferences


(Edited by Passthru at 7:44 am on Jan. 29, 2002)

[Don]

I like wide antlers with tall tines. ###We don't have deer with very long tines where I hunt. I guess that is why I like them.

[Brian S]

Wow Woodseye,
That looks like its part Moose. We argue out here about blacktail/muley combos but hadn't heard of a moose/whitetail combo ...lol. I have never been in the position to pick and choose my deer, more like oh crap that one's a buck bang. My favorite looking rack variation is the tall tined symmetrical Texas whitetails that Real Tree outdoors is always after.
Brian

[jayber]

Using Passthru's scale:

### ###MASS ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ###10
### ###SPREAD ### ### ### ### ### ### ### 9
### ###TINE LENGTH ### ### ### ###10
### ###WEBBING ### ### ### ### ### ### 3
### ###FREAK POINTS ### ### ###2
### ###DROP TINES ### ### ### ### 4
### ###BALANCE ### ### ### ### ### ### ###9

Haven't seen any droptines in our area, though they'd be nice!

[wyokid]

Mass and then Spread for me....

[KIDKY]

would have to say mass, followed very closely by drop tines - i saw one last year with about a 6-8 inch drop tine, boy was he something to look at!!

[trkyhntr]

I like them wide !!

[KsBowhunter]

Mass, tine length and then spread. Kickers and drop-tines are cool, but theres nothin' better looking than a tall tined, wide racked buck.

Like this one for example:

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/82bb4c32/bc...cVU6p8AFfHGkobF

[woodseye]

Would have loved to seen your pic but yahoo denies access. Tried typing in file,yahoo says no file. Oh well I tried(I like to see big bucks!)Bet you see some nice ones out there in Kansas. Thanks for responding to post,when its done I will compare members responses to the survey i saw.

###:ren:

###woods

[Duke]

tall and freak points I like stickers and kickers and all them points.

[Freedom]

I like them wide and tall, and well balanced with a lot of mass. ###Not a fan of the drop points, kickers, or webbing!

[Hook]

I 'll take mine tall and wide with a lot of mass. I also like the typicals. Y_Y

Freedom, Welcome to the forum. :wavin:

(Edited by Hook at 7:16 am on Jan. 31, 2002)

[kuff]

I have taken 2 freaks, one had a split main beam with a tine about 9 inches coming straight out like a unicorn, and one with a palmeated right side that looked like a closed hand. (I'm going to try to get some pics of them posted soon)I guess I like the freaks but I would also like to take one with a nice drop tine someday.

[davered1]

If it's whittail I'm ###a sucker for any drop tine.



If it mule deer then got to go with kicker points sticking out everywhere

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