ORIGINAL: GMMAT
If the second print is inside the first print it is a buck
I honestly thought it was the other way around.
You do mean (by saying what you did) that the back hoof printwill be placed almost directly over the front hoof print?
If so...I learned something, today.
Correct, from a casually walking deer. If the second print, (the back hoof) is inside the first print (the front) the deer is a buck/male. A buck's chest is wider than it's hips and a does hips are wider than it's chest causing their back hoof print to be outside the the front hoof print.
Also, I don't buy the dew claw and weight theory. A mature doe will give a bigger print, heavier print that a 1.5 year old buck at times.