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Michigan Buck Still In Velvet

ricky racer

ricky racer

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Well, I've been hunting deer for 50 years now and I've never seen this before. I was hunting yesterday morning and had a spike and a 3 pt walk under me. To my surprise, the 3 pt was still in velvet. The bucks here in Michigan generally loose their velvet in late August or early September.

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Confirmed buck via anatomy? May be an anterled doe or it could be a buck with hormone deficiencies. My uncle shot an 8 point buck during MO rifle season in November years ago that was in velvet, had a scar where his testicles should have been.
 
krub6b said:
Confirmed buck via anatomy? May be an anterled doe or it could be a buck with hormone deficiencies. My uncle shot an 8 point buck during MO rifle season in November years ago that was in velvet, had a scar where his testicles should have been.
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I assumed it was a buck since it was traveling with another buck. It would be pretty out of place for a doe to be hanging out with a buck.
Last year, about a mile away, I saw a doe with antlers again an assumption but it was traveling with two fawns that were obviously with the antlered deer.
 
I have only had my hands on one antlered doe and she was hard horned. My uncle killed it on a trip to Ohio.

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