Just when you think you have seen it all.

[Mike P]

I see deer every day, lots of them. On any given morning or evening there are around 16 to 20 in my front yard. Many times I see them four or five feet away while looking out any given window of the house. Recently my arborvitaes and yews have been providing food for most of them.

Tonight there were over twenty in the yard when a small doe ran across the front yard and into the woods. A very large deer entered the yard and followed the path of the small doe. It was a buck. And he had no antlers!

I glassed him and could see the round depressions left by the now cast antlers. And he was running a doe! It is February 5th. and the bucks here never shed their antlers at this time. Most cast their antlers here around the last week of February from all the years I have watched them.

I find it very interesting that you guys up north had deer casting their antlers early and now it seems that this phenomenon is happening here.

And a doe in estrous in early February, that's just plain whacked!

[mikej]

found the first set of sheds here on dec 4th mike

[FredBear]

I had it here last year on the third had a buck whom had cast, breeding a doe on my cuddeback.

[xbow kenny]

I watched a 5 by 5 white tail chasing a doe on Jan 25 three years ago, most bucks around here shed the end of December. Go figure.

[STEELWORKER]

here in western pa my dad took what he had thought was a big bodied doe the first week of december, turns out it was a buck that already shed! man that is early

[PaBowhunter]

They had a managed hunt in Maryland on January 19 and 20 they took seven bucks that had dropped their antlers.

[dutchhunter]

last year on the opening week of turkey season we had several deer walk by the decoy one had half his rack 4 points on his right hand side that is the latest i have ever seen one with horns DUTCH