Judging Velvet Bucks is Tricky Business
I can see clearly now that the velvet is gone. I think there's a song that goes something like that. Well, maybe if a deer hunter wrote it. OK, maybe that's a bit too cheesy for an early morning, but I'm going to use that to begin illustrating my point in this post. We are seated in early September and it seems as if half of the bucks across the whitetail's range are still holding strong to the velvet on their antlers. That will change by the day as bucks begin to shed velvet