What creates GIANT bucks?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2025
- Whether you are trying to grow a giant buck on your property or searching public land looking for the biggest deer you can find, this video is a must-watch.
In this video, Brian Murphy and Dr. Karl Miller separate fact from fiction when it comes to antler development in whitetail deer. Brian was the CEO of the Quality Deer Management Association (now the National Deer Association) for 23 years, and Dr. Karl Miller, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, has been professionally studying whitetails for over 45 years. In this video we discuss:
The difference between antlers and horns
How to tell if an antler deformity is genetic or not
What makes a buck display non-typical points
What to look for in hunting properties if you are trying to find or grow huge bucks
Some of the biggest bucks tagged each year are...immature?!
Are you lowering the quality of the genetics in a deer herd by shooting trophy bucks?
What constitutes a "management buck"
What most bucks are genetically programmed to look like
What makes a good "cull buck"
What is it that makes a buck's antlers so gnarled at the bases?
and tons more!
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met brian murphy at georgia outdoor blast such a great guy with a lot of knowledge !!thank y'all for having him on and great podcast !!
As usual
You guys have the best guests and questions!
Thank you
More then half our deer in southern Alabama on our property have one antler. Very interesting to hear that it's not just our property. Great information.
Man Brain Murphy brings back some Memories from shows of Years ago. Enjoyed this Episode
Thanks for watching!
Great episode keep it up! As a GA native and old enough to of been around before the digital age so glad to still have GON in print and doing well.
I would love a video that discusses the accuracy or lack of; of aging on the hoof as well as teeth/jawbone aging, and the incisors testing method…as compared to known deer age.
I’ve read a few college studies claiming that on the hoof, jawbone and the incisor lab testing are all, at best, 36%accurate, compared with known deer age?
Would love these experts to discuss this to help with game management when it’s possibly only a 36% accurate guess.
@@RavingUGAfan it already exists.
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Great podcast as always.
@@NorthAlabamaOutdoorSportsmen thanks man!
Absolutely loved Brian’s insights!
Great video. Excellent comparison. Learned a lot and have some new things to consider. Keep them coming!
Very cool and informative video podcast. 👍
Thanks Mark!
That camera angle on Brian is wild guys 😂😂
I love this stuff!
At least 15 years ago a previously unknown, heavy horned, very misshapen-racked buck showed up on our farm. With 1 beautiful, heavy and tall side, and the other side an 18 inch spiked club, he was a formidable fighter. Within weeks every buck was missing at least part of their rack. In subsequent years, that pattern of odd rack was prevalent in young bucks. We have been culling out those deer ever since but still see them. Our assumption is that it's coming from his doe offspring. We do harvest does at a rate of about 5 doe to 1 buck. That's not a goal but just what it works out to. Of course, we can't tell which does may be passing this on. 120 acre cattle farm, 1-3 bucks harvested per year including culls. Thoughts?
Now I have information to throw at those who say “You can’t eat the horns!” Well actually… lol
@@DanielPhillips86VA 🤣
The contralateral phenomenon, maybe it's related to the osteoporosis of the skeleton that occurs during antler growth, mentioned earlier
Stress or physical pain/ injuries have a lot to do with rack development. Often overlooked
Thanks, guys!
Yeah y’all bring it over to Arkansas after that comment about the hormonal doe!!! I was watching with my grandmother and she was absolutely appalled!
Y’all ever come to SW Arkansas for a trip give me a shout! (Lots of public opportunities)
Maybe the reason when you shoot the bucks off with small antlers you don't get bigger antlers is because you also have to shoot the does that produce small antlers too? Where to they get antler genetics from mom dad or both?
Both. This is why culling is iffy at best.
Love pines.
It has NOTHING to do with the soil imo.
Have you ever been to DeKalb Co Ga ??
I’ve lived in Ga all my life and I can tell you areas like this are not exactly full of people deer hunting to say the least lol
NOBODY has been deer hunting in those areas in a million years , and so you have these guys now getting permission to go in and bow hunt these areas , and they are easily killing these hammers bc nobody has hunted them in forever.
It’s not the soil.
We lost thousands of acres to a solar farm. How detrimental will this be to what property we have left?
That's a different conversation for a different podcast
Can you guys please make some of the old school hats with rope in hunter orange
So most of the genetic defect deer seem to be in Alabama huh ….
That makes sense to me .
GO DAWGS !
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You can open hardwood canopies as well lol
Biologists had elk antlers in this video 😂
Antlers are antlers.
At 40 minutes it looks like the guy that’s talking has antlers
so the April scrapes we find when deer return from wintering... It's communication but triggered by a small testosterone spike?
He lost me at millions of years when they came across the Bering Strait. After that I can’t believe anything he says lol. Peace out
What about pibals ?
Wooohhh
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Do deer take the same testosterone that I take😂
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Westervelt is who sold all of our lease to solar.
Bs there is no such thing as earth being over 2 million years old. That's where science turns into mythology.
Truth
Earth is about 6k yrs.
Now this is true! Halleluyah
At 7 min in when he says deer came across the berring strait , i am out. It’s proven now that there was no non frozen corridor to the US through Canada among other things that have blown that entire theory out of the water which mainstream academia teaches us. Ugh. Love this channel but bring that bs into hunting
It’s unfortunate that you had that reaction because there is some amazing information in this episode. Hopefully you’ll enjoy some of our other episode! We are glad you enjoy the channel!
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Where'd they come from then 😂 the ancestor species definitely came from across the Pacific
You are saying that there was no frozen corridor??? What are your source, because there is so many évidence that actually they where. Maybe some people have theory that it didint exist (wich i dont see how it would make sens) but saying it was proven is simply wrong.
@@le-aussit melted 😂😂😂
Nope.
Need a temporary contraceptive for young bucks that we're unsure of so we can keep them from spreading genes before we know if theyre any good
This biological evolution belief system is so weird and unscientific
Why?
Def agree, Genesis 1 is where it all started
@@levi.bruff.711 Genesis 1 is what year exactly? As a Christian I’m genuinely curious.
@ I think most creationists say the earth is about 6000 yrs old, but no one knows exactly
@ I know the only one who does, And I think time, space and human limitations don’t apply to him. A million years or a single second is trivial to the almighty. The fact that creationists or evolutionists argue over trivial things like that is a little silly in my opinion, these gentlemen are scientists at the end of the day, and are not pushing any type of view they’re just giving you facts in a palatable way for the average person to understand. A lot of time and money has gone into this research. So far be it from me to question someone about the data. I’m doubtful anyone in this comment section has a background in biology, I definitely don’t, I run equipment and turn a pipe wrench for a living. Just my two cents.