Dwarf deer

[LDennis24]

Don't know any back story, my dad sent me the pic and said it was on Facebook

[boneaddict]

Looks like a texas whitetail to me

[nwwanderer]

Most of the south, age wise, what I would expect to push 200# here was about 120# in Mississippi

[boneaddict]

I used to salivate over all those giant whitetails in Texas, then I realized they were the size of dogs. Lol makes them antlers look pretty big.

[Boss .300 winmag]

That’s more work than it’s worth.🤯

[Bowhunter3]

Makes the island deer here look like giants 

[carpsniperg2]

Indeed looks like a wet Texas deer. About the body of a good sized lab.

[elkslayer069]

I thought everything was bigger and better in Texas? 

[CasterlyRock]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/29/small-deer-huge-antlers-hunted-by-mississippi-man/72005047007/

Pretty sure this is the source of the picture. In Mississippi

[kodiak06]

LMAO, that's not a normal deer for Tx or anywhere in the South...

[deerhuntr4885]

It happens.  I shot a dwarf muley in Idaho several years ago. Talk about ground shrinkage!   

[dilleytech]

That’s pretty interesting assuming it’s real. A pretty nice rack for a deer 1/3 the normal size.

[Bullkllr]

This explains most of my blacktail hunting career thus far

[pianoman9701]

A buddy of mine lived in AL while he was doing pilot pre-qual checks at Ft. Rucker. If I remember correctly, he said he could shoot two deer a day - a buck and a doe - and they were tiny. A fully antlered buck was under 100 lbs.

[SuperX]

Bergmann's rule

[LDennis24]

A buddy of mine lived in AL while he was doing pilot pre-qual checks at Ft. Rucker. If I remember correctly, he said he could shoot two deer a day - a buck and a doe - and they were tiny. A fully antlered buck was under 100 lbs.

Yeah my dad's family is from Tampa and he said somewhere down there it was like 6 deer a year no more than two in a day or something like that. This deer looks grey like a coues deer would look to me.

[kodiak06]

A buddy of mine lived in AL while he was doing pilot pre-qual checks at Ft. Rucker. If I remember correctly, he said he could shoot two deer a day - a buck and a doe - and they were tiny. A fully antlered buck was under 100 lbs.

That fully antlered bucks below 100# is completely FALSE lol, maybe he saw one like that. Bama's smaller sized bucks are near the coast and are probably averaging 125-160# Bigguns  are 175-215#.

[pianoman9701]

A buddy of mine lived in AL while he was doing pilot pre-qual checks at Ft. Rucker. If I remember correctly, he said he could shoot two deer a day - a buck and a doe - and they were tiny. A fully antlered buck was under 100 lbs.

That fully antlered bucks below 100# is completely FALSE lol, maybe he saw one like that. Bama's smaller sized bucks are near the coast and are probably averaging 125-160# Bigguns  are 175-215#.

Well, my friend was trustworthy and he called them dog-sized deer. He did live in Mobile.

[kodiak06]

A buddy of mine lived in AL while he was doing pilot pre-qual checks at Ft. Rucker. If I remember correctly, he said he could shoot two deer a day - a buck and a doe - and they were tiny. A fully antlered buck was under 100 lbs.

That fully antlered bucks below 100# is completely FALSE lol, maybe he saw one like that. Bama's smaller sized bucks are near the coast and are probably averaging 125-160# Bigguns  are 175-215#.

Well, my friend was trustworthy and he called them dog-sized deer. He did live in Mobile.

Maybe so, but he never weighed them. I grew up just north of Mobile and killed over 150 bucks in Alabama and never a 100# racked buck. I grew up hunting N mobile county, the black belt, and near Rucker/Enterprise.  Definitely not mountain bucks down there. One cool thing is the Black belt actually has a Michigan strain of whitetail that was transplanted there.

[buggy]

Interesting. Maybe its more common than I realize but the antler configuration looks more blacktail/muley.

[dilleytech]

A buddy of mine lived in AL while he was doing pilot pre-qual checks at Ft. Rucker. If I remember correctly, he said he could shoot two deer a day - a buck and a doe - and they were tiny. A fully antlered buck was under 100 lbs.

Skinned and gutted maybe. I have seen labradors bigger than that.

[LDennis24]

It's interesting what everyone thinks of its size but I feel some of you are misjudging it. This deer is tiny!

[kodiak06]

Ya may be seeing replies to a specific statement. The deer in the post is small...

[Kingofthemountain83]

Coues' deer???