Nice deer in the neighbor's yard

[sestoppelman]

This big 2x3 blacktail was scoping out the neighbor kids 'construction site' today. This is a big bodied deer for this area, being the western Washington version of the mule deer, usually not very big.

Week ago there was two 3 pointers up the street munching away.

 

[Doubleplay]

Nice rack but almost no brow tines?

 

[sestoppelman]

Nice rack but almost no brow tines?

Not always there and often very small. Below from B&C

If an antler lacks a brow point (G-1), as frequently happens in mule deer/blacktail deer categories, there can be only four normal points, including the main beam tip. Sitka blacktail deer sometimes fail to develop G-3 points, and thus resemble the usual 4×4 whitetail pattern with points arising from the top of the main beam.

 

[Doubleplay]

Not always there and often very small. Below from B&C

If an antler lacks a brow point (G-1), as frequently happens in mule deer/blacktail deer categories, there can be only four normal points, including the main beam tip. Sitka blacktail deer sometimes fail to develop G-3 points, and thus resemble the usual 4×4 whitetail pattern with points arising from the top of the main beam.

Good explanation. Thanks.
I don't have any experience with blacktails.

 

[fourfive8]

That is a well fed brute! Hard for me to judge blacktail antlers having lived with mule deer all my life but that boy has a compact, well muscled and hefty body.