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11-10-2009, 08:14 AM

#21

UncleNorby

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Here's what they are...............nothing to worry about. If anyone knows the real name for them, I'd like to know too.

11-10-2009, 08:44 AM

#22

superstrutter

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Location: North Louisiana

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Originally Posted by UncleNorby

Here's what they are...............nothing to worry about. If anyone knows the real name for them, I'd like to know too.

Exactly. They are not in the meat anyway, so it's really no big deal. I've seen uglier things in deer than those, I can promise you that.

11-10-2009, 08:46 AM

#23

thom2

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Location: Tennessee

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Anyone have any idea what these are?
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Found them in a doe today. Those are the tenderloins on each side.

I've forward your photos to my friend the game biologist for my area. I've also seen them in most deer I've taken.

I'll post the info when I heard back from him. ---Thom

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11-10-2009, 11:00 AM

#24

Western MA Hunter

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i hunt the canaan / salisbury area myself..

11-10-2009, 11:53 AM

#25

Ol'Mongo

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Location: California

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They look like lymph nodes. I've seen them in the deer's throat but never in the loins.

11-10-2009, 03:05 PM

#26

guide1

Spike

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Location: Illinois, South of Chicago

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Those are kidney beans, put 'em in a soup!!

11-10-2009, 03:15 PM

#27

Proofnpood

Spike

Join Date: Oct 2009

Location: Kansas City, Miissouri

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Originally Posted by superstrutter

You guys must have not cleaned too many deer. Those things are in every deer I have ever killed. Sometimes many, sometimes just a few. I really can't tell you what they are, but they aren't blood clots. They are probably cysts.

I can't say I'm an expert when it comes to deer anatomy, but I've gutted, skinned, butched, deboned, and trimmed off fat of, at best guess, about 30 deer in my life and that's the first I've ever seen of anything that looks like that. Maybe it's common in some parts of the country and not in others (?) (all I've been dealing with is Missouri, mostly grain-fed, deer) but I would've been surprised too if I opened one up and saw that. Maybe on deer #31 I'll be surprised....

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11-10-2009, 03:23 PM

#28

crokit

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I've only seen this, in that area, on does, and not every one that I've taken. That's why I believed it to be fawn nursing related, particularly the way the fawns will '" bang the sack " with their heads, possibly causing small capillaries to rupture.