First Bow Kill
09-21-2006, 06:24 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2006
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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.
09-21-2006, 06:32 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Lake County, Il
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RE: First Bow Kill
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!
My first bow kill 3 yrs ago was a pheasant that had the misfortune of walking under my stand!
09-21-2006, 06:45 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Bremen, GA.
Posts: 2,091
RE: First Bow Kill
I don`t know about the nubs?or the inbreeding going on there
I thought that stuff only went on in alabama
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!
I thought that stuff only went on in alabama
But hay CONGRATS ON YOUR 1ST
BOWKILLAnd what do you mean it was only a doe?
Be thankfull no matter what!
There is nothing like your first.
Congrats again!
09-21-2006, 08:48 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fremont, NE
Posts: 552
RE: First Bow Kill
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.
09-21-2006, 09:05 AM
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RE: First Bow Kill
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.
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.
