Fun fact, spike antlers harden sooner and fall off later in the year. This means that for a couple of weeks, the big boys are slick-headed and the small ones are packing stilettos. Alsheimer had a story about one buck who particularly liked tormenting the more dominant, but temporarily defenseless bucks. He showed up at the pen one day after the other bucks had shed their velvet and found him really most sincerely dead.If that's real and not photoshopped, I wonder how many bucks there were near that property with eyes poked out...