- Jul 29, 2014
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Even if they eliminate the one sub 6 point buck I high doubt they will make buttons anything other than antlerless. I have shot them before being in a small bachelor group during rifle and thought it was a pack of does at over 100 yards. They are normally easy to tell as they look like one lone doe and does normally some what group or have a yearling still tagging along. Plus less rounded on top between the ears, but long distance its hard to verify.
I shot 3 bucks one day. It was the last gun day of the year and an antlerless deer
came limping in. So I whacked her. Later that morning, as more deer came through, I killed another limper out of a pack of bucks and does. Later, another. I decided I had enough to deal with so I started cleaning them up. What I thought were all does turned out all to be bucks. They had dropped their racks early due to their injuries. All thre were 2.5 yo. Legal of course. They were antlerless.
I have killed bucks(with antlers) thinking they were does. That's why I don't see the state totally outlawing killing spikes. Sh!t happens