deerhunter1224

At 830 on wednesday i finally got a deer after 5 years of nothing. I have a few questions. This deer i thought was a doe end up being a button buck. I had three deer right under me. When they were coming in two of them were head buting fighting like bucks. Never seen that before. When i shot the deer it did not jump or anything. I saw where it ran didnt hear any crashing. I thought I missed something told me to go over there and look well i found about 200 yards away. I feel so bad that I got a button buck. I so thought it was a doe. I killed off something that could have been a nice buck next year.

mobow

Yeah, but don't beat yourself up about it. It is just so hard to tell. The butting of the heads could have been an indicator though....[8D]

Um, some things to look for. Bucks are generally more curious than does, so they will sometimes come closer to investigate. Also, if there are several yearling deer in a group, the does will be smaller. For us meat hunters, that's bad news for a button buck. Before I learned that info, I would shoot the button every time.

Unless they are really close, and you can see the knobs, rely on binocs, and just do what you can do.