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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2008, 07:38:25 PM »
why couldn't they put it in the velvet category????  :dunno:

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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2008, 08:11:15 PM »
the blurb said they cant because a stag does not shed its antlers. Hence the velvet year round. i guess it is hormonal imbalance.

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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2008, 08:45:17 PM »
interesting!!!!

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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2008, 10:02:37 PM »
here's a good article regarding cactus bucks from kings...

http://www.kingsoutdoorworld.com/feature/cactus-bucks.shtml

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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2008, 10:20:40 PM »
About 10 years ago a friend of mine got a buck is NW South Dakota like that. It was the strangest thing any of us had seen. It had a gigantic body frame, almost as big as maybe an 8 month elk calf, just tall and big bones, not very much muscle tone. The hair was really faded out and looked a bit grey, face was nearly white. The rack was about 25" tall and only about 15" wide, but it was still in velvet all dried and shriveled up. It was a 6X11 most of which were stickers and little *censored* around the base. My buddy was freaking out cause it was in the velvet still, but after asking the Biologist about it he calmed down. The biologist said that the buck was very old probably close to 15 yrs and that his hormone levels most likely were really low and that is why the rack was so ugly and in velvet. Then he said if he would have got him in his prime it might have given the state record a run.
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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2008, 12:10:29 AM »
is that unusual?  I have never seen that before
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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2008, 04:07:10 PM »
Here is the buck my brothers kid shot.  The local that we were talking to said that the buck had never shed the previous year but that he had broken off everything except about 6 inches of main beam. Then he started growing again. You can see where the new growth started right at the drop tine.

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Re: Velvet sheds
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2008, 05:09:13 PM »
Great buck Groundhog, glad you got it on here.

 


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