8 pointers, let's see pics and stories

[Big Ed]

2008 PA Rifle Season SHREW Harvest
 

[Jayrod]

Man the stud 8ptrs on here keep em coming guys!

[Keefer]

Nice bucks Big ED but I would like to know whats under that cover in your first pic?   :D

[Walt Francis]

This one was taken this year by Hunter Rung with a longbow he made using one of my forms.

 

I took this one several years back with the first St. Jude Hope bow.

 

[bill langer]

Nice bucks BigEd!
Is that a firebird or camaro????

[Big Ed]

1969 RS Z-28 Under the Cover and a 1968 SS 396.

[centaur]

Ed, I have a nice bow I would trade you for that Super Sport  

[Big Ed]

Let me think about it......nah!

[Herdbull]

I passed this guy up for two years, then he g0t his right leg broke which caused his left antler to get all jacked up. He is still a 4x4, but the stickers come off the side and below browtine. When he came through at 10 yards and saw his huge neck, I knew it was time to shoot. After the shot, I watched him lay down at 50 yards. I was shooting a 75# Wes Wallace 64" bow. Mike

 

[buckeyebowhunter]

 

[Roughrider]

One from last year - but the coyotes got to him before I found him.  

One I didn't get -
 

[Keefer]

Mike,
  You mentioned something some here may know little about on your last pic of the jacked up antler...I've noticed on other bucks that people have got or noticed that if a buck has an injury that's pretty severe on one side then he in some case's will have a deformed antler on the other side...I once went to a outdoor show here in Maryland and I couldn't remember the fella's name but he raised some very nice bucks and that year he had a Buck in his show with a bad side but the buck looked healthy cause he raised it from a fawn and no noticeble injury..So he had his vet come out and look him over real good and found the Buck had somehow got a piece of straw from his pasture stuck in one side of his nose and it made the antler grow wild on the opposite side...I actually witnessed this buck at the show and asked the fella myself and it does effect an injured antlered animal...I think I will start a post on just that so it won't take from this post so maybe we can all see for ourselves the results so if you notice a thread please post pics there... Keefers <><

[Herdbull]

I always thought that if there was a severe injury and the antler was deformed from side to side, then it would have "memory" and always be "messed up". However, I have sinced learned that this is not always the case. Barry Wensel saw and photographed a buck with a broke leg and club foot with a messed up rack, but once all of the bones healed, it grew a normal very large set of antlers. So in this case it did not last life long. Mike

[Will Cocke 2]

One from 2009
 
 

One from 2010
 

from 2011
 

[bill langer]

Great Bucks!
Bet there are a few more 8 pts we have not seen yet...

[bowzonly]

WOW! Those are some awesome deer. I am not ashamed to admit that I am very jealous, envious and somewhat frustrated.  You guys must have access to some pretty awesome places to hunt. Deer like those just dont exist on the heavily hunted public land spots I have here in NJ. I would have to pay big bucks to travel out of state to hunt big bucks like that.  I am not a trophy hunter but I would love to have just one wall hanger. Its gets very frustrating when just a few weeks into the season here in NJ you see spike bucks turning themselves inside out at the first hint of danger. I may have to start saving my pennies.