RE: velvet bucks
How do you know it was the same deer? i find it hard to believe that without a bold physical feature, you can know its the same deer. I also highly doubt the same deer grew spikes two years in a row. possible, but highly unlikely.
i havent seen any shedding yet. Last year, I saw the first rubs in Iowa roughly August 25..so we shoudl be seeing them right around now. Those will be early. In NE Iowa, Southern Wisconsin, Northern IL, you'll be seeing a few rubs here and there around fields right now or in the near future, and about september 1-7, you'll be seeing a pile of them.
slayer