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    Quote Originally Posted by TStone View Post
    Shape of the horns. On an older bull the tips of the horns will start pointing outwards. Hope that makes sense.
    Makes sense. However, I always thought that the white tips indicated that it is an adult and no real horn growth after that point. Learn something new everyday.

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    Remember horns grow from the base, not the tips :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by FantomBadger View Post
    Makes sense. However, I always thought that the white tips indicated that it is an adult and no real horn growth after that point. Learn something new everyday.
    There is a misconception that white, often referred to as ivory, tips are an indicator of age. This is not true, I have seen many young (2-3 year old) kudu bulls with impressively long ivory tips while these bulls were still 4 - 5 years away from being trophy bulls. With the spiral horned antelope horn shape is an accurate indicator of age.

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    That is the misconception I had. Thank you for explaining it nicely. This is probably due to said misconception, but the ivory tips makes a nice trophy/presentation.

    I few years ago I was fortunate to hunt an “odd” nyala bull. One horn was perfect and probably reasonably impressive, the other grew strange and looks like it broke of at some stage as well. But what a spectacular animal it was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FantomBadger View Post
    ...but the ivory tips makes a nice trophy/presentation.
    This is true.

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