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Title: Dwarf deer
Post by: LDennis24 on January 01, 2024, 01:38:37 PM
Don't know any back story, my dad sent me the pic and said it was on Facebook
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Post by: boneaddict on January 01, 2024, 01:49:23 PM
Looks like a texas whitetail to me
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Post by: nwwanderer on January 01, 2024, 03:15:23 PM
Most of the south, age wise, what I would expect to push 200# here was about 120# in Mississippi
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Post by: boneaddict on January 01, 2024, 03:22:05 PM
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.
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on January 01, 2024, 03:25:58 PM
That’s more work than it’s worth.🤯
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Post by: Bowhunter3 on January 01, 2024, 03:28:37 PM
Makes the island deer here look like giants  :chuckle:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 01, 2024, 04:59:33 PM
Indeed looks like a wet Texas deer. About the body of a good sized lab.
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Post by: elkslayer069 on January 01, 2024, 05:15:08 PM
I thought everything was bigger and better in Texas?  :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: CasterlyRock on January 01, 2024, 05:16:18 PM
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
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Post by: kodiak06 on January 02, 2024, 02:13:13 PM
LMAO, that's not a normal deer for Tx or anywhere in the South...
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Post by: deerhuntr4885 on January 02, 2024, 05:25:38 PM
It happens.  I shot a dwarf muley in Idaho several years ago. Talk about ground shrinkage!   
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Post by: dilleytech on January 03, 2024, 09:07:17 AM
That’s pretty interesting assuming it’s real. A pretty nice rack for a deer 1/3 the normal size.
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Post by: Bullkllr on January 03, 2024, 10:23:19 AM
This explains most of my blacktail hunting career thus far
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Post by: pianoman9701 on January 03, 2024, 10:29:59 AM
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.
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Post by: SuperX on January 03, 2024, 11:01:07 AM
Bergmann's rule
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Post by: LDennis24 on January 03, 2024, 11:20:52 AM
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.
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Post by: kodiak06 on January 03, 2024, 02:08:55 PM
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#.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on January 03, 2024, 02:15:19 PM
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.
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Post by: kodiak06 on January 03, 2024, 09:23:19 PM
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.
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Post by: buggy on January 03, 2024, 10:50:44 PM
Interesting. Maybe its more common than I realize but the antler configuration looks more blacktail/muley.
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Post by: dilleytech on January 06, 2024, 09:53:23 AM
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.
Title: Re: Dwarf deer
Post by: LDennis24 on January 06, 2024, 08:57:06 PM
It's interesting what everyone thinks of its size but I feel some of you are misjudging it. This deer is tiny!
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Post by: kodiak06 on January 13, 2024, 12:24:03 PM
Ya may be seeing replies to a specific statement. The deer in the post is small...
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Post by: Kingofthemountain83 on January 13, 2024, 06:28:22 PM
Coues' deer???
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