Saw a hard-antlered deer today - no joke!
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Saw a hard-antlered deer today - no joke!
My house is surrounded by a couple wooded city parks. It's not all that uncommon for me to see deer around the trails while on a run. But today, something unique. As I came up to a corner I could see a large and small doe. No big deal. I made it about 25 yards away before they started getting skiddish and took a bound off the trail. But then I noticed a third deer a little further back. It had a 7 or 8 point basket rack, no velvet. It was clearly a rack from last year that had not dropped. Can anybody think of a reason why this happened? Just a random sample at the far end of the bell curve? Genetic condition? Weather related?
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Re: Saw a hard-antlered deer today - no joke!
Must be well fed. Heard of this before and maybe even a few weeks later. Wonder if he will still be in velvet for the opener?
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Re: Saw a hard-antlered deer today - no joke!
bowhunter15 wrote:My house is surrounded by a couple wooded city parks. It's not all that uncommon for me to see deer around the trails while on a run. But today, something unique. As I came up to a corner I could see a large and small doe. No big deal. I made it about 25 yards away before they started getting skiddish and took a bound off the trail. But then I noticed a third deer a little further back. It had a 7 or 8 point basket rack, no velvet. It was clearly a rack from last year that had not dropped. Can anybody think of a reason why this happened? Just a random sample at the far end of the bell curve? Genetic condition? Weather related?
I saw one last weekend that was no where near a basket rack. He was probably a 130 inch 10 point. Was in a field with several others and he was the only antlered deer. Shocked me that he had both sides still holding on.
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Sounds like a happy deer. Low stress for sure!
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I live in Waukesha county WI which has some good genetics and food. We will see some horns as late as mid-April.
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Saw a nice buck a week ago with both sides.
You can fool some of the bucks, all of the time, and fool all of the bucks, some of the time, however you certainly can't fool all of the bucks, all of the time.
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I've seen them into March w/the previous years bone...
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I usually see 1 to 2 a year holding their horns until mid - late April.
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You hear of it here and there, very surprising this year with the snow though...
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Wow, crazy. Here I'm always afraid of bucks dropping their antlers during late season. If I were a deer, I guess I know where I'd go to live Kind of like a big, unfenced zoo in that park.
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Maybe it's frozen on!
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I've seen them in April before, never big racks though.
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Re: Saw a hard-antlered deer today - no joke!
We still have antlered bucks here in KY...no wonder I only found one shed this entire spring, and the one I found was in my front yard!
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I hevent.been posting at all on the scouting thread for good reasons....anyways, last Wednesday wile scouting ..I kayaked in a remote spot and kicked up 130 class that still had both side on ....this is A public cattail marsh ...cant wait to get in there this fall.
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Milk Weed Seed wrote:I've seen them in April before, never big racks though.
I agree mostly scrub bucks. This was the first year i saw a good one holding in April. I do know there have been more over the years though. I find drops in obvious places that I looked in March.
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