Depends on your location but here in Montana they started about 3 weeks ago as a friend of mine found a nice set of 4 pointers at the base of this fence where it had jumped it and on impact the antlers fell off, they still had the blood and hair on them. Even around the kabin here I only see flatheads now. To answer your question though, I doubt seriously if you would see any antlers on whitetail as they started dropping them around here about the second week in January. Bobby