Buck lost his velvet

[Bigfoot]

Apparently the antler growing season is over. This little 4 point scrubbed off most of his velvet overnight. Some of it was hanging in tatters from his rack (clearly visible with binos).

[levelwind]

Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.

[fishshack]

Cool pics!!!!  My son hit and killed a 7 point buck with one of our work trucks on Thursday ($4500.00 in damage- ouch). It was just starting to lose its velvet as well. A guy that does mounts stopped and offered to do this mount for free as he wanted to try one in velvet. It turned out pretty nice.  I'd rather have the rack attached to the living deer and not have a mangled truck though.

[RUNNIN REBEL]

Some bucks Losing velvet in early Sept.

[skipper19]

Jerry, you get them to panic and lose velvet by throwing down snow like that? ...hmmmm. .

[RUNNIN REBEL]

Mark, It is actually very hard to track the "swamp bucks" in places like that. The duck weed swallows up the tracks and and when you find a "track hole" there is no telling the direction it is going or the size or make of that deer or even how fresh......

[skipper19]

I get that was in the swamp my friend...it was a strange look in the pic to see what looked like snow on a nice green forest floor! So that was the surface water in the swamp! Great pic and a good spot for his waders..