I’m posting my cactus buck in response to a previous post of one yesterday. There was nowhere to post a picture plus I can give more info here. 

We called him no nuts for many years with trail cam pics but nobody ever saw him except the one day I killed him. He was at least 6-7 years old looks at past photos. So my understanding is a cactus buck grows in velvet non stop. They will break off a tine that then heals and keeps growing differently causing crazy looks in racks. I had always wanted to kill a velvet deer and a drop tine deer so I got both in this special fella.

I had him mounted and took him to the local wildlife show to have him looked at and scored. A wildlife biologist came over and wanted to know details. After showing him photos of a sloughed hoof , the hair on his brisket totally gone and details he was confident that this deer had had a battle with blue tounge and it nearly killed him but deer are strong animals and he battled thru and survived. 

I don’t remember the reason for the hoof issues except I think it was a nutrient issue causing it to break off? I could be wrong. And the hair missing on the chest I was told was from him being so weak that he moved by pushing himself across the ground with his rear legs. 

He did have a penis and testicles after all the years of being called no nuts but the biologist didn’t think that he could breed. 

He is a very special animal and I was lucky enough to have my video camera that day to film him being harvested. 



Cactus Buck