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Post by jims on May 3, 2015 20:01:23 GMT -5
I have found a fair number of deer antler sheds over the years. Also found quite a few still on dead deer. Unsure what caused them to expire, automobile contact, fight injury, wounded etc. I found something I never saw before, I found a small dead 8 point deer now eaten that had both antlers detached like sheds. They were only a couple of feet from the head. I do not know if it got hit by a car late in the season and the antlers were soon to drop and then after death and the coyotes pulling on the carcass they became detached. Just unsure how this happened. The deer was maybe 200 feet from a busy road, the antlers were definitely detached like a shed but a bit different but definitely not cut off.
Anybody else ever see this before and the explanation for the same?
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Post by edge on May 4, 2015 8:10:18 GMT -5
A friend of mine shot a buck around the third week in December and as we dragged it to the truck one of the antlers fell off and on the ride to check in the deer the other fell off. Since you could also shoot does that week the game warden checked it in as a doe so he kept his buck stub. I suspect your deer was shot or hit by car after the antlers had loosened and were ready to be shed..nice and handy for you though edge.
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Post by tar12 on May 4, 2015 18:31:19 GMT -5
When they are ready to fall off they do so easily. i saw a video where a buck jumped a fence and upon landing both antlers fell off....lol
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Post by rrb55 on May 4, 2015 20:19:06 GMT -5
Years ago I shot a deer on the the last day of the Maryland Muzzleloading season (January 2nd). It was about 90 yards away and standing next to a gap in a chain link fence, and I could see it was an antlered buck, but with open sights couldn't get a point count. After the shot I heard a 'sprang' as the deer hit the fence as it started to run. I climbed out of the tree and walked over to where the deer had been standing, and found a single 4-point antler on the ground by the fence. The deer was 40 or so yards away and had no antlers left. You could see a marked difference between the two pedicles where the antlers had grown. The antler I had in my hand fit into the 'wet' pedicle like a key into a lock. The other pedicle was dryer as if the other antler had dropped of the previous day. When I showed up at the checking station with an antlerless buck but with a 4-point antler in hand, they checked it as a 4x0 (eastern count).
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Post by oneshotike on May 4, 2015 20:40:30 GMT -5
I watched a 6 point shake his head knocking off his antlers during the first week of Indiana muzzy season. The deer then walked about 10 feet and laid down. He had a huge hole atop his back and was laying down to die imo. I watched him debating on if I should shoot him or would he make it when I seen 2 yotes coming in. I shot 1 of the yotes and the deer just looked at me while I reloaded and then shot him. I could smell the rotting flesh from the buck as he laid there so im thinking he was shot early during gun season.
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