Looks like The bucks may be sporting some velvet clad antlers a little earlier than I expected this year in NE Ohio. What do you think?

Here is a zoomed in pic and the origional. Looks like he is growing already to me

Looks like it to me. I too would think its a little early, but stranger things have happened.


Looks too be atleast a 10pt from what I can tell.

I agree on both accounts. I heard some are still holden on to last years horns.

I thought as you guys did at first, but now that I've looked closer I don't think that it's even a buck. Look at how small that deer is and how skinny the neck is. If it were a buck it would a young buck and no way would it be sporting antlers that thick this early if it's a young buck. I think what we are looking at is the folds of the inner ear that appear to be rounded up because the deer's got its ears back. I could be wrong, but I think we are all going through antler withdrawal.

Yup, those look like nubs to me. That could be the key to bigger bucks in the heartlands. If there genetic code has there antlers start growing earlier in the year they would have longer to grow. It makes sense even though there is little that is nutritious this time of year for them to forage on.

I have one too that looks like that, but when my father emails al the pics to me he has to reduce file size so I can't zoom in. I will see if I can post it tonight to put up. The one I have looks like a younger deer too.

Rick,
Try this program. It will shrink the file size down quite small while keeping the photos integrity intact. Thank Justin for passing it along to me last fall.

http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

Not sure what I'm seeing

This is the one I was thinking of. He isn't big, but it really appears that something is there on his head other than pedicles and they look too big to simply be nubs on a button buck. I am not really sure what it is..........

Looks like antlers here, too. But it also looks like his ears, too. [&:]