So I shot a really good buck Sunday, almost 21" 10 pt, so was after an antler restriction buck or doe yesterday. About 7:15 young buck comes out with one horn. Enjoyed watching him for a while then see another buck come out. Tall, fairly heavy on one side but nothing on the other!!! What's the odds???? I spent 20 min watching and checking him out close as he was about 100-150 yds out and I have good optics. So after a period of time it looks like there was no evidence of a horn so I take the unicorn out. Well, you can guess it, the horn was broken off almost smooth with the skull!!
While this was within the antler restriction I wonder if anyone else had done this? Landowner was fine with it but I hate shooting younger bucks.

I killed a unicorn spike 3 years ago only to find out that one of the spikes was broken off at the base!!! He tasted good!!!

Kind of how I look at it too. While this is a low fence area with fairly low numbers of hunters and deer we all try to harvest mature deer.

Our favorite saying is " You'll never kill a big deer if you shot the little deer!"

I thought the spike was deformed until I saw the break!!!

I shot one about 4 years ago, not even a bump on one side.

Our landowners son shot a unicorn WT last year. Truly one horn growing almost out of the center on his head. Need to try and get him to send me a pic to post.

It's just a spike! No worries!

Not worries, just very unique it hat it is truely growing from the center of his head

Here's one i shot as a unicorn buck a few years back...

I took a small 4-point on the Daughtrey WMA a couple years ago on a drawn management hunt. It had a 1" nub on one side, and three very small points on the other. The nub wasn't a broken tine, just didn't grow out. The manager was happy I removed such an ugly deer from the place

I have one that shows up at one of my protein feeders on a regular basis.

I don't see how that legal... its at least one un branched antler... to be considered a point it has to be 1 inch... so how is there an un branched antler if there is no antler at all....

uh oh

Might want to yank that picture if you arent sure.

thats ok those horns dont fry up good anyway!