how old is a button buck?
11-05-2007, 07:20 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 1,653
RE: how old is a button buck?
Those spikes are under three inches which makes it a legal antlerless deer so if you want to kill itI'm all for it.
I would think QDM would mean passing all spikes, forks, 6pts and strickly waiting for mature or cull bucks.
I guessI give BB a break but would shoot a six so whats the difference? It would seem more realistic that the 6pt would have a better chance to grow to maturity than the button so why not shoot the button???
I would think QDM would mean passing all spikes, forks, 6pts and strickly waiting for mature or cull bucks.
I guessI give BB a break but would shoot a six so whats the difference? It would seem more realistic that the 6pt would have a better chance to grow to maturity than the button so why not shoot the button???
11-05-2007, 07:57 AM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: how old is a button buck?
ORIGINAL: Western MA Hunter
I did the same thing a few years back Monie.. I shot him as the world's largest button, or the world's smallest spike.
He dressed out at 107lb... everyone told me he was a tiny spike...
Way to go Planter!
This is the "mini" I shota few years back... spike or button?
http://i21.tinypic.com/122oz8y.jpg
I did the same thing a few years back Monie.. I shot him as the world's largest button, or the world's smallest spike.
He dressed out at 107lb... everyone told me he was a tiny spike...
Way to go Planter!
This is the "mini" I shota few years back... spike or button?
http://i21.tinypic.com/122oz8y.jpg
11-05-2007, 02:00 PM
#17
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: WI
Posts: 338
RE: how old is a button buck?
A button buck is a fawn, six months old, born this spring. The buttons are sometimes protruding through the skin, and are hard like antler. I've seen several that field dressed 90+ lbs.
As for those "sub-legal" spikes, I think in most cases those are year and a half deer. Think of some of the little bitty fawns you see in fall. Occasionally, a few of those make it to yearlings. In a lot of places the herd dynamics are all out of whack, you get fawn does bred late, late fawns, hot dry summer..... little crappers.
As for those "sub-legal" spikes, I think in most cases those are year and a half deer. Think of some of the little bitty fawns you see in fall. Occasionally, a few of those make it to yearlings. In a lot of places the herd dynamics are all out of whack, you get fawn does bred late, late fawns, hot dry summer..... little crappers.
11-05-2007, 02:46 PM
#19
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: East Central Ohio
Posts: 663
RE: how old is a button buck?
ORIGINAL: RidgeFACTOR
........let 'em go, watch 'em grow.
........let 'em go, watch 'em grow.
