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One horned doe
« on: September 27, 2010, 12:30:29 AM »
Sitting in a tree stand and saw a weird thing.  I was purely meat hunting, so any deer with visible horn would do.  Saw a hooter 5x5 on the way to the stand, and then got frustrated by the wind.  Finally, a couple fawns fed under the stand, and one busted out to the west.  The fawn was looking in the brush when a deer came out.  I looked it over at about 60 yrds, noted a small spike on the left.  OK, this one would do.  Truely a dink, but still legal.  Things got weird as the deer fed out.  It had 3 spotted fawns behind it, plus the 4th one with it!  Now I was puzzled.  I've seen some pretty feminine spikes, but this was nuts.  Anway, the wind was swirling a bit, and the deer started blowing and stomping- and walking toward me.  It ended up at 15 yrds, staring at me.  Then it turned around.  It had nipples.  It was a horned doe.  Craziest thing I've ever seen.  She stood under my stand for long enough to draw a little forky in from 300yrds to the North.  I proceeded to shoot at it, but it jumped the string, and I shot over it's back by a good 6 inches!  Oh well, cool doe.

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 12:42:04 AM »
Maybe he adopted all those youngins.  :chuckle:

was she still in velvet.  I have seen several and they are usually in velvet.

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 12:42:54 AM »
P.S. I am not 100% sure but another taxi one time told me they don't shed there antlers and they do not shed the velvet.

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 04:43:50 AM »
a friend of mine shot a doe with antlers in the  eastern Sherman GMU north of Orient about 12years back
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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 05:44:08 AM »
Usually the horned does don't have offspring with them as they don't reproduce.  Sort of like having a woman with a full mustache after menopause.  Pretty amazing what you got to see.  Many folks wouldn't have had the restraint to not shooting her.  Thanks for your ethics.

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2010, 03:38:17 PM »
Usually the horned does don't have offspring with them as they don't reproduce.  Sort of like having a woman with a full mustache after menopause.  Pretty amazing what you got to see.  Many folks wouldn't have had the restraint to not shooting her.  Thanks for your ethics.

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2010, 12:42:27 AM »
is that like a hemaphrodite deer or something? ive never heard of that......
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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2010, 12:52:14 AM »
We had what we called a "rotten horned" whitetail doe over in Republic for several years.  She had twin fawns every year and the last time we saw her alive she had 3 and 2 of them were mulie fawns.   :dunno:  My buddy found what was left of her carcass after the was knocked down by a cougar.

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2010, 01:25:27 PM »
That is really neat.  judging from what you said she must have been in milk and reproducing.  Odd she had so many fawns.  Good doe to leave reproduce.  My daughter passed on a doe a couple of years ago and I about dropped my jaw but the doe ended up having twin fawns.  Again, a good doe to leave (mulie) then she shot her first mulie buck two hours later (2 year old 4 point).  This year my last daughter has a doe tag.  Can't wait!

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2010, 01:35:51 PM »
very cool! i have heard of them but never got to see them. thanks for sharin
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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2010, 01:36:57 PM »
I have never seen a doe or a cow elk with antlers, but they cahnged the hunting regulations a while back because of them.  The regulations used to be based on sex of the animal, now it is strictly based on antlers.  There were some people that harvested illegal animals because they harvested a spike that turned out to be female.  I have never heard of someone being prosecuted, but they decided it was better to make sure that the rules didn't bite someone over an oddity.

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2010, 02:11:23 PM »
My brother shot one many years ago in vail a small two point. That was the first time I even heard about that kind of thing probally wouldn't have beleived it at the time if I was not there to see it before he gutted it
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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2010, 11:49:48 AM »
Maybe she is transgender.  A dueer, if you will.   :chuckle:

Now that you have outed her, all the deer are going to make fun of her mullet!
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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2010, 04:31:55 PM »
Could this be?

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Re: One horned doe
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2010, 05:30:22 PM »
I saw a fawn trying to nurse on a buck once.  Maybe it was a doe after all.






 


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