Fawn with Antlers??
07-17-2007, 07:01 AM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: north florida
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RE: Fawn with Antlers??
I agree I would have to see this to believe it!
Although, I hunted a plantation near tallahassee,fl. that had a very high population of deer that had some weird things happening on it. They kiiled a 6point with a deformed nose like a cow. It was mounted in the clubhouse and the wildlife biologist blamed inbreeding for the deformity. Also they killed a buck with twisted antlers(also mounted, and blamed on inbreeding). I am trying to make the point that although I don't believe it, it could happen.
Although, I hunted a plantation near tallahassee,fl. that had a very high population of deer that had some weird things happening on it. They kiiled a 6point with a deformed nose like a cow. It was mounted in the clubhouse and the wildlife biologist blamed inbreeding for the deformity. Also they killed a buck with twisted antlers(also mounted, and blamed on inbreeding). I am trying to make the point that although I don't believe it, it could happen.
06-10-2013, 10:43 PM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Southern Indiana
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Such an old thread but I will add something..
I saw with my own eyes a fawn that still had spots. It was sporting a 3-inch spike. This deer was thirty feet away from me in plain sight. Over the next couple years it grew into a massive 22 pointer (22 scorable points, but almost 40 if you counted the points that were less than one inch), scoring 187 when EHD killed him. I hated to see him dead. =\
I saw with my own eyes a fawn that still had spots. It was sporting a 3-inch spike. This deer was thirty feet away from me in plain sight. Over the next couple years it grew into a massive 22 pointer (22 scorable points, but almost 40 if you counted the points that were less than one inch), scoring 187 when EHD killed him. I hated to see him dead. =\
06-12-2013, 04:42 PM
#27
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
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I've seen many 1st Year Young Button Bucks and Spike Bucks but never a Spotted Fawn with a decent Rack!We've seen several Bucks with 1-side that was deformed,twisted or even where it curved out towards the front of the Bucks face even...they say if a Buck gets injured usually the opposite side will grow differently either smaller,larger or strangely shaped?
06-15-2013, 07:15 PM
#28
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: IN.
Posts: 530
My first deer I shot with a bow in 1995 was a 1 1/2 year old 6 point. It was average weight and rack size for our yearling bucks. Once we got it field dressed and home we hung it up and noticed it still had it's white spots all the way down both sides of its spine like a fawn. They were so faint that we didn't even notice them in the woods but once we got a good look at them they were plain as day. Maybe he saw a late born fawn from last year that is undersized and is still showing its spots like mine was. I don't know. But he didn't come out the womb with antlers.
06-16-2013, 06:58 AM
#29
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: South East Pa.
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The areas I hunt seem to have a lot of partial albino deer. I have seen a lot of deer (Usually doe) that look as if someone threw a handful of white paint at them. They certainly look like fawns sometimes. Also, I have shot button buck that were really huge, 80-90 pounds. They looked like good size doe at a distance. You never know. One year my x shot a doe with spikes. I used to live on the border of Bucks County and a kid shot an all black deer near where I lived. Nature can be weird.
06-16-2013, 08:45 PM
#30
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: DeFuniak Spr.Florida
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They are called piebald deer.They can have white or black or be all black.In a sports shop in my town the have a full body mount of one.
Here this is easier.As for the six point,nothing would surprise me in nature.I was thinking maybe a cross breed(fallow and whitetail?)
Last edited by FlDeerman; 06-16-2013 at 08:47 PM.