Do button bucks shed their buttons??
#4
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.
#8
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
So once again the answer is YES
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Logan, UT/ NW Penna
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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.
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.