my folks feed the deer all winter here in vermont, and into spring, starting in october. around christmas time, i think it was, i went out back put some apples out, and found the left side of a rack w/2 points on it. my father, who had been going up in the evening to watch them come in kept seeing a different 4 point come, saw that deer a couple of days after my find with his right side missing. two bucks, same week, missing antlers. around the first of the year. an old-timer told dad that all the deer lose their antlers by the 10th of jan., but i don't believe it.