Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

What do you guys/gals think??

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

Button bucks don' t have antlers to shed. If it has antlers, it' s a spike.

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

Well, buttons are antlers so I would assume they shed them.

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

Button bucks can, and some do grow polished antler. It a couple of years ago I mistook a button for a doe in the gun season. It had polished nubs about 3/4 inch long. So the answer would have to be yes. They would have to shed the existing antler in order to grow antlers the following year.

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

Those would be some tough sheds to find:D. It would be even tougher to tell if you had a matching set:D:D.

Scott Meier
White Oak Lodge

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

no

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

There is no bone exposed. How could they possibly shed them. - No.

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

Well I just called ODNR (Ohio department of natural resources) and talked to the deer biologst located at the Waterloo facility. He told me all button bucks do have polished antler and all shed this hardend bone at years end. ODNR waterloo facility # (740-664-2745).

So once again the answer is YES:D

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

yes they do, my buddie found one once shed hunting one spring.. Kept it, and used it as a necklace good luck charm! I have looked for one ever since.. .No luck yet!

RE: Do button bucks shed their buttons??
 

Not something we think about every day is it? My family has raised a few bucks in the past, and the old man was messing around with one of them, and knocked it' s " buttons" off. They were about 1/2 an inch long and pollished. It really suprised us.

I was just wondering how many fellow hunters new this.

buckeyebuckhntr, you must have a lot of time on your hands to be calling ODNR. :)