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?
Doe? Buck? He/She?
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Re: Doe? Buck? He/She?
Yeah, at a bar in Chicago once. I've never been back.
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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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Re: Doe? Buck? He/She?
maybe whitetailassasin will chime in. Last year he killed a deer that was both male and female
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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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Maybe it was a button buck getting chased off by mom?
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No, they came by less than 20 yards away. Nothing on the head of either one. Both were adult deer.
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Just a thought.
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