RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

Every year, unless they are shotand tagged, which causes an interruption in the shedding process. There are however what we call cactus bucks that are born with both sets of sexual organs which cause deformity in the antlers and theantlers on these deer can keep growing (usually in a grotesque manner and without shedding the velvet) year round.

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

I believe the current record is 8 years, held by a deer in New York...;)

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

Ya i have also herd of button bucks shedding their buttons, but have never found any. I have seen pictures of them that other peoplehave found though, but they used dogs to find them.

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

I stand corrected.:D

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

Trying to find BB sheds is like trying to find a nickle in that same woods. Nearly impossible. However, the do shed their buttons. If they did not shed them, how do you explain their growth to a basket rack as 1.5 yr olds. Buttons are dead bone (for lack of a better word) and won't grow after losing their velvet (yes BBs have velvet, just goes mostly unnoticed). The pedicle must be exposed for new growth to take place in the spring and summer.

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

if a bucks antlers break threw the skin he becomes a spike ,onlythen can he shed . so a true button buck couldn't shed ,his antlers are still covered up with skin.

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

Bucks with antlers shed them once per year.

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

Well I'll be damned. After 25 years of hunting and seeing what everyone in my state of Indiana has called button bucks, I now have to admit that I have never ever in my life seen a button buck. I have never seen a male deer with antlers (buttons) that have never broke skin. I am not saying that they don't exist, just that in 25 years of deer hunting I have never seen it. But obviously I have see a ton of spikes (as you call them), you know, those deer that have horny protrusions coming of their skull that maybe 1/2 inch long and don't still up above the hair and are not identified by most hunters until the deer is dead. Maybe it is a virgina thing, but obviously Indiana is devoid of button bucks.

UMMMMMM the sweet taste of sarcasm!

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

i found this picture on google. It is a person holding a button buck shed.(not me) I have no clue how he found it but believe it or not,here it is...

RE: How often do deer shed their antlers?
 

they shed their antlers once a year. usually around the middle of january