RE: Shot button buck as a guest
 

Hey Tealboy. I congradulate you on a succefull hunt.

I used to be in a club where if you shot a button head you lost one of your buck tags. The club cannot tell you you can not shoot two bucks on someone elses land! just on the club! Don't let him burn that tag. If the club said they count bb's as antlered deer that's thier problem. The state says a button head is an antlerless deer and no matter what that club says, you can leave that club and still get two bucks, just not on that club property. The state said if the antlers don't break the skin then it's counted as a doe.That's because they know that you can't tell the difference on EVERY button head. I got a ticket one time for shooting a button head on a buck only hunt (no antler restrictions), because the state counts them as antlerless even if it is a buck (walked right under me I could see the knobs

Don't beat yourself up over it. When a BB get's that big the skin on thier head gets thicker and the winter thick hair sets in. If the deer didn't turn it's head the exact right way there was no way to tell it wasn't a doe. They should be glad that a guest was nice enough to save one of thier monster bucks for the club members and take a doe for them to keep the buck to doe ratio in check.

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RE: Shot button buck as a guest
 

On the other hand I guess I should warn you as a new hunter that in Georgia we have many young deer that can be trick you especialy if you've never seen a 115 pound button head like the one I got last year. No one even knew that one was a buck untill you FELT the head with your hand. I suspect the reason for this is doe's dropping fawns very early through very late in the year. In a good heard most the doe's should drop at around the same time. You've got to be much more carefull when hunting on one of thoes "we only want monster bucks taken off our club" clubs.

as an example In the last club I was in guests were not alowed to kill bucks. Members could not kill a buck that didn't have a 15" outside spread or an 11" main beam with 4 points on one side or better. And if you killed a button head you could only get one buck on the club. The result of this was no does being taken and a heard of young deer. Mostly spikes and funky horns you could not cull out. The biggest buck I got in my life they degrated and said I should have let it walk and that it would have been a much nicer deer next year. No "good job man" or " great first big buck". Well, I left that club and I'm happy as a clam in my new club with no antler restrictions. We get better deer taken off this club now anyway. Just watch the button heads! They don't want to hear "it was a doe when I shot it".

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RE: Shot button buck as a guest
 

Keep in mind also that it may not be legal to tag it with a buck tag. If it falls into the state's anterless catagory then it probably requires an antlerless tag on it. The club can count it however it wants, but the state is the ultimate say on how it gets counted under the tagging system.