First Bow Kill
 

Hi guys, I just wanted to thank everyone on this forum for all there pointers all summer. I got my first bow kill last night, what a gratafiying feeling even though it was a doe. The strange thing about it was (and its kind of gross) but it still had a fawn inside I found when I was gutting it out and also it had a nubs like a buck. Has anyone else expierenced this? The guy that does my butchering said it could be inbreeding what do you all think.

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That's really strange and close to impossible! The fawns are born in the spring, by now they're losing their spots. This would be a good question for a real deer biologist.
My first bow kill 3 yrs ago was a pheasant that had the misfortune of walking under my stand!

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I don`t know about the nubs?or the inbreeding going on there:eek:
I thought that stuff only went on in alabama:D
But hay CONGRATS ON YOUR 1ST:)BOWKILL
And what do you mean it was only a doe?
Be thankfull no matter what!
There is nothing like your first.
Congrats again!

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Sounds like you shot a freak. Never heard of such a thing. Congrats on the kill, great job.

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congrats on the deer.

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congrats on your first kill, and thats really wierd, never heard of it before.

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Congratulations on your first bow kill. I am hoping to get mine this weekend. I have never heard of a doe carrying the fawn this late either. I agree that a biologist may have a better idea of how this could happen.

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First of all, congrats on your first kill. Don't worry that it's "Only a Doe." It's just as important, if not MORE important to take does to balance the herd. I do a management hunt every year where all we are allowed to take are does.

I have seen nubs on does before. This is why most states rule an "Antler less" deer as having antlers that are 3" or less and also why it is listed as "Antler less" instead of buck or doe.

I have also seen one full fledged hermaphrodite. It hade a vulva AND a penis, but no testicles.

But this one carrying a fetus? That's a new one to me, although, I don't see it as impossible.

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Are you saying the fawn had nubs, or that the doe you shot had nubs?
Weird either way.

Congrats on the first kill!

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That is very strange. All fawns should have droped long ago.

Congrates on your first.;)