Velvet Free

[boneaddict]

8 bucks yesterday, 50% are velvet free.   

[Houndhunter]

Pics or your making stuff up again.....

[jrebel]

 

[Watimberghost]

not sure if Bone owns a camera

[beaslayer6]

all the bucks I seen this weekend were velvet free too. I was wondering what was up with that? early winter?

[Houndhunter]

not sure if Bone owns a camera

I heard he still uses film....

[BULLBLASTER]

not sure if Bone owns a camera

I heard he still uses film....

whats film?

[X-Force]

not sure if Bone owns a camera

I heard he still uses film....

What elevation bone?

[bankwalker]

I need pics, with landmarks in the background,  3 types of id,  and preferably a written statement from said velvet free bucks or I just don't believe it.

[boneaddict]

2000 feet or so.   Rocks and camera don't mix, so no deal, though my daughter was trying to get one with her cell phone. 

[Quackwhacker]

Saw a velvet free 4 pt today up around 4000 ft. He was hanging out with a doe.

[HornHoarder]

I also seen some whitetails out of velvet today.

[pope]

Seems early, but tonight I saw a hard-horned blacktail 3-point with deep forks crossing the road near Buckley.

[lokidog]

They still seem to have velvet here, but shouldn't be long now.

[returnofsid]

The three bucks I saw in the southern Pend Oreille County area, last Wednesday were all still in full velvet.

[stringer]

Still in velvet here.

[teanawayslayer]

No pics?

[jasnt]

Of the 11 bucks visiting my plot all are still in velvet. 2222' asl.

[Band]

I completely believe Bone because karma usually catches up with liars in the form of being shot by a skunk and to my knowledge that has not happened.

 

[jasnt]

Of the 11 bucks visiting my plot all are still in velvet. 2222' asl.

Update 1 young 4x4 was hard horned last night.

[gonehuntin68]

I have a blacktail on my camera that is hard horned.

[blindluck]

drove by a dead forky blacktail on I-90 near issaquah hard horned and dark.

[demontang]

Saw a hard horn buck along the yak. The bucks I chanced last early season all where out of velvet too

[GETOUTSIDE]

not the greatest photo, on my computer, taken with my phone. Smallest of 5 legal bucks. The only one that's shed velvet. I think that pic was on the 28th.

[westside bull]

I seen pics of a couple of bucks that were killed last weekend that had no velvet!

[gun-dog]

I live just outside of Newport and right now it looks like we are about 50/50.  The deer I stuck opening day was still in full velvet, but the one who walked out before him was hard horned.  I would guess that they will all be hard horned before the week is up. 

[bhawley76]

I haven't seen a buck that is hard horned yet, all are still in velvet around my house even the town bucks still have velvet

[gun-dog]

I haven't seen a buck that is hard horned yet, all are still in velvet around my house even the town bucks still have velvet

Weird, Where are you located?  We started to see some hard horned bucks early last week.  I thought all of ours would be out of velvet before we even started hunting. 

[jasnt]

My plots about 50/50 now too. Im getting excited for mid Oct

[bhawley76]

I take that back checked my trail cams last night and got three good bucks that have no velvet, but there is still a bunch of little bucks that still have there fuzz on them. The three that don't are all good size, if I knew how to post pics I would put them up.

[Old Man Yager]

I been seeing that too. Them little guys don't get as riled up as the bigger deer do, I think the bigger deer decide to show some poor tree who's boss and rub the velvet off sooner than the smaller bucks do.

[Jimmy33]

I haven't been seeing any velvet bucks at my house...