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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on November 24, 2021, 07:14:26 PM

Title: Stag?
Post by: boneaddict on November 24, 2021, 07:14:26 PM: filmed three bucks still in velvet. two were smaller. wonder if this was a stag.

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Post by: Turdle on November 24, 2021, 08:08:01 PM: Trying to identify as a Doe.... :sry:
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Post by: LDennis24 on November 24, 2021, 08:35:27 PM: Wow it even holds it's ears all crazy. You think it has a parasite disorder?
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Post by: boneaddict on November 25, 2021, 08:26:18 AM: No idea, but it probably has to do with his bases
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Post by: nwwanderer on November 25, 2021, 09:24:55 AM: My guess would be eating an alkaloid containing weed and restricting blood flow and hormone effects when we were off the charts dry. Especially if several were about
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Post by: Birdguy on November 25, 2021, 09:30:52 AM: Shoot Doug, looks like you were close enough that you could have just asked! Lol. It appears you are quite close to that one.
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Post by: LDennis24 on November 25, 2021, 09:38:32 AM: Yeah you usually see several in the same area when they have that issue. His bases must be bigger than a beer can! Shrunken testicles and still in velvet. Is this near Portland or Seattle? Maybe San Francisco?
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Post by: cat fisher on November 25, 2021, 10:25:10 AM: blue tongue
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Post by: boneaddict on November 25, 2021, 11:24:37 AM: I was pretty close. He was bedded so I was able to close the distance.
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Post by: SuperX on November 25, 2021, 11:32:39 AM: I've heard them called cactus bucks even though they don't have the classic barrel cactus shaped mass. We shot a 3x3 in late October in Montana that had the same dried up crappy looking velvet - the meat smelled and tasted very licorice/rutty. Still good though... probably why some people say Mule Deer is 'gamey'.