GaFlLine
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Pictures are taken a year apart from each other. Seperate locations 8 miles distance. I believe two different bucks but the racks are very similar other than the brow tines.
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First two are 2017 and last two are fall of 2016
after clarifying this, I'd agree with Dustin, same deer.
I'd say different deer. Not the best pictures on that two to judge but I'm thinking different age classes. Markings on the top of the nose looks different too, but that could be the flash. Is the 2016 deer blind in his left eye?
Obviously, your photos of the 1st and 2nd buck are the same deer.
However on the 3rd and 4th photo, it is a different buck in my opinion because some things on a deer do not change from year to year. The nose area on the 1st and 2nd buck BOTH have a fairly large circular area of white hair around the complete area of the top of the nose and in that area, there is a narrow distinct line of brown/dark hair that comes straight down to the top of the completely black area of the mouth of this buck.
On the 3rd and 4th buck there is NOT the wider white area NOR the narrow brown darker line area coming down to the black mouth area of this buck.
As I said, this feature does NOT change from year to year as I have seen well over 650,000 of my trailcam photos to prove that point year after year. I do in fact have hundreds of photos of the same buck or doe for that matter as they mature from one year to the next to the next as I have a library of sorts to continue viewing them.
I will agree that both of these deer obviously have had some great nutritional food products along the way that gave them both a lot of unusual characteristics.
Look at the photo below and you can see what I am talking about.
If this were my place there wouldn't be any other deer that could look like that one. So, unless deer like this are common in your area I would say the same.
Anytime you get a straight on pic of deer like this its good to save them. obviously the quality of the older pics aren't as good. I like to get two pics of the deer in the same position to compare. Usually with a good quality pic if you zoom in on the ears there are small little spots that are different on every deer. Of course a deer could get more little notches as they get older that they didn't have when they were younger. Other things are throat patches, the chest hair tufts some have them some don't, some have bigger ones than others. Color pics help too.
Good news either way. Its either two bigguns or at least one still alive?
Obviously, your photos of the 1st and 2nd buck are the same deer.
However on the 3rd and 4th photo, it is a different buck in my opinion because some things on a deer do not change from year to year. The nose area on the 1st and 2nd buck BOTH have a fairly large circular area of white hair around the complete area of the top of the nose and in that area, there is a narrow distinct line of brown/dark hair that comes straight down to the top of the completely black area of the mouth of this buck.
On the 3rd and 4th buck there is NOT the wider white area NOR the narrow brown darker line area coming down to the black mouth area of this buck.
As I said, this feature does NOT change from year to year as I have seen well over 650,000 of my trailcam photos to prove that point year after year. I do in fact have hundreds of photos of the same buck or doe for that matter as they mature from one year to the next to the next as I have a library of sorts to continue viewing them.
I will agree that both of these deer obviously have had some great nutritional food products along the way that gave them both a lot of unusual characteristics.
Look at the photo below and you can see what I am talking about.
Hopefully they are brothers and the one that disappeared on us last year is still around. The buck in the First two pics (dating 2017) was shot this week.