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Doe? Buck? He/She?

Unread postby SamPotter » Sun Nov 13, 2016 3:26 pm

I don't know what I witnessed today; I had already seen two nice bucks chasing different does, so when a doe came bouncing out of a bedding area with her tongue hanging out, I grabbed my bow expecting a buck behind her. Instead, an antlerless deer grunted and jumped a deadfall. Once "it" saw the doe, a classic chase scene ensued, minus antlers. The chaser was not a button buck, nor was it a buck with antlers broken off. The deer more or less looked like a normal doe, but the neck seemed either thicker or shorter and the body a little more blocky.

I had a buck on trail camera with no antlers at all in NY a few years ago. No pedicles or anything, but he did have the classic reddish/blonde forehead patch. This deer did not. Another time I saw a doe in CT grunting and chasing other does around, but she had a normal doe appearance. This deer blurred the lines between buck and doe in looks.

Anyone ever seen anything like this?


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Unread postby Hodag Hunter » Sun Nov 13, 2016 4:08 pm

Yeah, at a bar in Chicago once. I've never been back.

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Unread postby Hawthorne » Sun Nov 13, 2016 4:13 pm

That's weird! I once saw a buck around nov 20th that already shed his antlers. He had an injury to his face. Got pics of him. He was a 10 point the next year was easy to identify him from the lump on his jaw. I ended up finding his dead head the next spring he had healed over broken bones in his face.

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Unread postby john1984 » Sun Nov 13, 2016 4:22 pm

maybe whitetailassasin will chime in. Last year he killed a deer that was both male and female

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Re: Doe? Buck? He/She?

Unread postby SamPotter » Sun Nov 13, 2016 9:55 pm

Cows get cystic ovaries which causes an overload of hormones in their system, and subsequently they are extremely tuned up and looking for a bull 24/7. Sometimes they act like a bull too. On the bottle of the hormone we use to treat this condition it literally says, "for treatment of nymphomania in cattle." Maybe this is what is going on...

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Unread postby vtbuck » Mon Nov 14, 2016 6:15 am

Maybe it was a button buck getting chased off by mom?

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Unread postby SamPotter » Mon Nov 14, 2016 6:33 am

No, they came by less than 20 yards away. Nothing on the head of either one. Both were adult deer.

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Unread postby vtbuck » Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:42 am

Just a thought.

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