Slash, Rogue, Tall Tines: 100 Deer Nicknames for Your Target Buck

For many deer hunters, it's a tradition to set up trail cameras to monitor buck activity throughout the day. Often, a buck will show up repeatedly in the photos and earn himself a target on his broadside—and a nifty nickname.

Why Do Hunters Give Bucks Nicknames?

While the idea of giving a wild deer a nickname might feel silly, there's some practicality to it. For one, it helps keep tabs on a particular buck that's the target for hunting season. It allows hunters to be able to easily reference a specific buck without having to describe it every single time. In other words, giving a buck a name is so much simpler than saying something along the lines of, "That 10-point buck that keeps showing up on the hill with the uneven brow tines and that downturned tip on the right side..."

How Deer Nicknames Come to Be

Because bucks' antlers can grow in interesting and unique ways, a buck's headgear alone can earns him a nickname. For example, an eight-pointer with four points on each side could be named "4x4," or a buck with uncharacteristically dark-hued antlers could be named "Dark Horn."

Or maybe the buck spotted on trail cameras has some nice kickers, a one-of-a-kind crab claw, or an insanely wide frame—all of these physical attributes provide great fodder for deer nicknames.

Other ideas might have to do with the location of a trail camera where a buck repeatedly appears; one that hangs out in a swampy area might become "Swamp Buck."

Still others might be nods to movie characters or pop-culture references that hunters themselves enjoy.

No matter how the name comes to be, christening a buck is a fun way to kick off a long game of cat and mouse that hunters remember long after the season comes to an end.

100 Awesome Deer Nicknames for Shooter Bucks

A deer nickname should be epic. No matter the characteristics that set the buck apart from the rest, his nickname should be something that will endure for all the years of jokes and storytelling to come.

Not sure how to narrow it down? Consult our starter list of buck nicknames to get your creative juices flowing.

1. The Machine
2. Tex
3. Dark Horn
4. Buster
5. High Tower
6. Bullwinkle
7. Big Nasty
8. Lotto
9. Powerball
10. Mr. Crabs
11. Moose
12. Great 8
13. Monarch
14. Smoke Stacks
15. Sticks
16. Stubby
17. Patches
18. Ghost
19. The Spy
20. Dozer
21. Mr. Miyagi
22. Old Timer
23. Swamp Donkey
24. Corkscrew
25. Max
26. Rambo
27. Smokeshow
28. Y2K
29. BC
30. Booner
31. Brutus
32. Captain
33. Buckzilla
34. Zeus
35. Tank
36. Shrek
37. Pretty Boy
38. Outlaw
39. Pig
40. MacDaddy
41. King Kong
42. John Deere
43. Goliath
44. Empire
45. Bull Buck
46. Dreamer
47. Splitter
48. Bruiser
49. Mr. October
50. The Tank
51. 4 x 4
52. Uncle Buck
53. Stickers
54. The Pope
55. Big Pine
56. Velvet
57. Casper
58. Buster
59. Rogue
60. Secret Agent
61. El Diablo
62. Chupacabra
63. Bull Dozer
64. Ninja
65. Funky Buck
66. Tall Tines
67. TNT
68. Slash
69. Genetic Perfection
70. Hollywood
71. Nightwalker
72. Bucky
73. Bubba
74. November
75. 007
76. Tall, Dark and Handsome
77. King
78. Storm
79. Dinner
80. Big Guy
81. Thrasher
82. Daemon
83. Longhorn
84. Lone Star
85. Ceasar
86. Stealth
87. Trash
88. Swisher
89. Clark
90. Baelon
91. Megatron
92. Hulk
93. Maven
94. Target
95. Shooter
96. Diesel
97. Dump Truck
98. Snarls
99. Basket
100. Beefcake

These 100 deer names cover a lot of the bases, but it's just a start. There are so many different ways to go with giving bucks a nickname. Have fun with it!

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