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flybum

Deer are dropping antlers already!?!?

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flybum

Shot a "big doe" today... Found out it was a buck when I walked up to it... Is it me, or is this early to drop the antlers?

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flybum

You'll have to trust me, for some reason, the picture of the head won't upload.

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Dirttracker18

Could have broke them off.

 

I saw pictures this year of a buck with an early break on one side, weeks later the other side was gone too.


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hunt or be hunted

I haven't ever shot one that's had its Anterls already fallen off this early but I have seen 2 really big bucks that I helped friends get out of the bush that soon as they grabbed the antler to look at its rack and take pictures fall right off in their hands, I know theirs lots that can affect this from lots of research I've done and the main cause I've read on early antler drop was either low nutrition levels, heavy antler weight and stress, mix all 3 together and its defifintly a cause for early antler drop in the season! . 

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Pro fisherman-Stud Muffin

Sweet upgrade.!! Glad the tags say antlerless.. To bad horns are gone


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Monks

Every deer is different. I've seen them with antlers in February. Congrats on the harvest. 

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SherpaJ

Last year I had several bucks on trail camera that had lost one or both of their antlers by december 5th.  Saw a small buck while in the Rainy River area last week that had lost one of its antlers.  Its not all that uncommon.

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