Antlers Fly Off After Buck Shot During PA Deer Drive - NW PA Hunting Stories

David B
4 months ago | Deer Hunting
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Joseph T
4 months ago
Damn. That’s kinda early for them to start dropping.
David B
4 months ago
that's what I thought at least for the area I'm in I've never heard of one this early. that's why I wanted to ask just curious.
John G
4 months ago
@Joseph thats what i was thinking too..
Wade M
4 months ago
Sometimes they’ll run into a tree and knock them off. I’ve had them do it in bow season before
David B
4 months ago
right on! clean off like that though? did they break or the whole antler came off like that?
Eric H
4 months ago
David, I too am from NW PA. It’s probably pushing 10-12 years ago now, but a fella I used to work with was showing me pictures of a big buck he had on camera. The deer lost its first antler about a week before Christmas, and the other was gone within a couple days. Anyway, both antlers were shed by Christmas. I’m an avid shed hunter, and I always seem to find a mid January shed, but I put a lot of miles on to get it. And then I typically don’t find another one until March when the snow starts to taper off.
David B
4 months ago
right on thanks for your input! I know around here it's usually winter time just thought this guy was early. keep after them sheds they're fun to find you can learn a lot from shed hunting!
Tyler C
4 months ago
Always early to mid December here in my part of Missouri.
Wes D
4 months ago
I found a fresh shed once on December 10th.
T.D. W
4 months ago
Did you notice if the deer had any prior injuries? We had a deer shed early one year and the only thing we could come up with was bc of the injury he got in bow season
Marc R
4 months ago
There have been some pics of deer in NH that have dropped as of a week ago
Justin M
4 months ago
I have heard if they have an injury the will shed them early.
David B
4 months ago
actually he did loose one of his dew claws and his hoof was all swollen and infected... I never gave that a thought but just made me curious to what others have seen I know there's a wide range of time for them to drop and circumstances but I appreciate the input have a good night
Ice Fishing I
4 months ago
Something similar happened to me around this day last year, but I think it was from the buck slamming its head on the ground after it got hamstrung by coyotes. There’s a pic and story in my trophy section. Crazy stuff. Antlers came right off, no blood or anything.
Shayna V
4 months ago
Did he have an injury? They shed early sometimes due to that. Like T.D. mentioned.
Brant F
4 months ago
It’s all about stress, I chased this guy 2020 in PA and he had a very very hard rut, front shoulder injury I assume from fighting and continued to chase extremely extremely hard (I believe he was a 3 year old at the time). He dropped his antlers around first week of rifle. He was around a 150” 14 point that year.
Fraternal O
4 months ago
Myself and a buddy both had the same thing happen to us a couple seasons ago in late November. His had lost one before he shot and lost the other while we were hanging him, mine the antlers were laying under him when I got up to him.
Fraternal O
4 months ago
@Fraternal north central PA
Samuel J
4 months ago
Same. NE PA, 12/1. Maybe the warmer Temps and lack of acorns? Gypsy moths hit the area pretty hard
David B
4 months ago
nice buck!
Wade M
4 months ago
@Tyler I’ve never understood why those deer shed so early. I stopped coming on late hunt because of it
David B
4 months ago
gypsy moths are no good
Jesse M
4 months ago
That’s not unheard of. I’m in potter county and it’s typical for a few to shed in rifle season. It’s more prominent to happen on a year the food might be a little tougher to find. The years we have good feed, they tend to hold a little longer. I passed one last week that was shed.
Tyler C
4 months ago
@Wade always early December here
Robert N
3 days ago
Last of February in Alabama
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