ORIGINAL: fingerz42
Yes button bucks shed... The bone on their head is ultimately "dead" therefore it needs to fall off to make way for the next years growth of antler. For the guys who thought it didnt fall off, did you think the buttons were going to grow velvet back over them, and then they were going to hit a new growth spurt and start to grow again into a bigger set of horns..?
X2. Even if a button does not protrude the skin it will fall off the following year when his next set of antlers begins to grow. Personally though I have never seen ones that have not grown through though. It is like when you had baby teeth, even if one of your baby teeth didn't fall out, when your adult teeth came they forced the baby tooth out, the baby tooth didn't just grow into your adult teeth. Hope this helps.