Man shoots doe with rack of antlers

[Calum]

Mon Nov 27, 10:31 PM ET

MICHIGAN, N.D. - When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe.

"It's got no male utilities," said Erickson, who lives in Minot. "It has teats ... it was pretty unusual."

Six hunting partners with Erickson witnessed the doe with a 4-by-4 rack.

"I'm sure this story will be around for 10 years," he said. "At least in our group."

Erickson notified the state Game and Fish Department and received a voice mail from a biologist who said these types of deer often are bucks whose testicles haven't descended or for some reason are castrated. Erickson said that is not the case with his deer, however.

"We couldn't find any male genitals on the deer," he said.

"We turned it over, and I got a lot of heat over that. Like I was supposed to know," Erickson joked.

Gary Rankin, district game warden in Larimore, said he has seen a couple of antlered does over the years, but for a doe to have a well-developed rack is unusual.

It is not the first antlered doe to be reported in the region this year. A conservation officer for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reported seeing a 10-point antlered doe shot near Robbin, Minn., during that state's firearms deer season. DNR conservation officers in other parts of Minnesota also reported a handful of antlered does.

Erickson said the antlered doe is a first for his crew, which has been hunting together for 25 years.

"It definitely was a keeper, he said.
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Information from: Grand Forks Herald, http://www.grandforksherald.com

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/ap_on_fe_st/different_doe

 

[senior]

Surprisingly not that rare!
There's been 3-4 shot in this immediate vicinity in the last 10 years

Just confuseing as to what tag to put on it

 

[Nine]

Is this kinda like a woman with a moustache?

 

[WCTHEMI]

Very strange for sure. Not sure how Ontario works, but here in Alberta our tags are either antlered or antlerless. Less than 4" is considered antlerless. Would make the choice out here a no brainer.

 

[senior]

Very strange for sure. Not sure how Ontario works, but here in Alberta our tags are either antlered or antlerless. Less than 4" is considered antlerless. Would make the choice out here a no brainer.

Well of course your right

Around here the MNR are the only ones that refer to a "doe tag" as an Antlerless tag

 

[AlderTK]

same as every one i talk to it's a doe tag

 

[dumbdawg]

i would put a buck tag on it as we do not have doe tags only antlerless tags

 

[woodchopper]

must be a liebral, no balls


but hey if you shot it thinking it was a buck and it has antlers it gets the antlered tag.

 

[catnthehatt]

Camp Wainwright has a large number ( comparatively) of antlered bucks.
My wildlife pal told me that they often are only spikes however, and not normally rubbed, they keep the velvet (on maybe because they like it? )
Cat

 

[huntinstuff]

teats? That's what they based some of this on? I think it was a buck and that fella that shot it didnt know what to look for....

 

[gitrdun]

Was it near a nuclear power plant?

 

[bigben]

same thing happened here in the kootenays .........guy goes out and shoots 4x4 muley and walks up to it and lord and behold no male anatomy..........makes front page of the local newspaper and CO says legal and gentleman keeps his deer..............also from picture the deer has a symmetrical 4 points polished up horns , rutted look with large neck and every distinguishing features of a muley buck if I can get pic I will try to post

 

[303carbine]

deer

Far as I'm concerned, if it's got antlers it's a buck.
I doubt that a genetic slip would taste any different .

 

[GEORGE7mm]

Is this kinda like a woman with a moustache?

No, they are everywhere, this is something unusual.

 

[senior]

So...would you still get to have your way with it before the other guys show up

 

[savagefan]

Very strange for sure. Not sure how Ontario works, but here in Alberta our tags are either antlered or antlerless. Less than 4" is considered antlerless. Would make the choice out here a no brainer.

Evidence of ### is head still attached OR intact genitalia attached. So where an antlerless is legal, lose the head.

 

[blargon]

Not confusing at all. It's got antlers, it gets an antlered tag, not the antlerless. BTW did it have any female genitals or just didn't have the male ones???

 

[snowhunter]

Fort Nelson's Museum, British Columbia, have a cow moose skull with a rather strange antler grow on one side of the skull, as well as a stuffed albino moose.

 

[crazy_davey]

So...would you still get to have your way with it before the other guys show up

Hey, if thats your cup of tea, have at er.

Just curious, do you have your way with dead deer on a regular basis? If so, you might want to see someone about your problem

 

[Dimitri]

Its a antlered deer tag for that one.

Dimitri