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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: [QB] Someone needs to do some actual research into the actual studies of white tail and mule deer antlers. Although it has always been the "common" perception (not an old wives tale, because very few wives of any age hunt deer) that a "spike" buck is a first of second year male, it is not a fact. Most spike bucks are not the youngest, but the oldest or the puniest. Deer antler development depends more on nutrition and health than age and as a buck reaches an age where his physical condition has deteriorated, what energies he has left over is used to suplement ailments and deteriorated conditions rather than antlers. Thus (and it is probably one of nature's own weapons to maintain a healthy population....a bit of evolutionary trivia for you creation scientist types), the bucks that have the least ability to pass on healthy genes grow the lesser of antlers, making them less likely to win the contest that determine which animals mate with the does. Old bucks (or sickly ones) grow the least of antlers and old does remain redish through the winter. No longer can either be expected to manage successfully to produce or raise healthy offspring, if any, and, in normal circumstances, neither wins the eye of the opposite sex in the rut. The best eating is either a young male (but certainly not during the rut) or young female. That red doe that was so easy to spot on the fall and winter grey colored woods is stringy and tough as nails and so will be 95% of those spikes. Oh, and if you don't like "gamey tasting meat" then don't shot a deer that has just been scared silly or chased a half mile by a pack of dogs and, as a result, has had an extra dose or two of adrenaline charged into his blood stream...that's the culprit. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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