Did the early warm weather start the bucks antler growth early this year? Saturday april 21I was driving in Bloomington IN, and I saw a dead buck on the side of the road with about 5 inches of antler coming from both sides of his head. And a guy that lives by my farm has a captive buck and its antlets are around 4 inches. I may be wrong but i thunk that it is awful early for that here in southern indiana.