Backyard Button Buck

[BigAl]

Taken a couple of weeks ago:

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[easy45]

cool

 

[buckhorn40]

 

[stryker]

cool

 

[Bow Hunter]

picture.

 

[RUGER]

Very cool.



TTTHHHWWWAAACK !!

Sorry couldn't help it.

 

[gil1]

I thought buttons had no hard antler. Are you sure that's not a yearling?

 

[BigAl]

I thought buttons had no hard antler. Are you sure that's not a yearling?

I guess it could be a yearling. I'm no expert.

Anyone got ideas?

 

[gil1]

I started a thread on the QDM forum and got the following response from BSK.

My buddy shot this strange buck. He thought it was a really big doe. His eight yr. old son didn't shoot it but has been going a bunch with daddy for a couple years, and this is his first time to witness closing the deal. Is he fired up or what?

I wasn't there to see it, but my buddy said it field dressed at about 110 pounds and looked to be maybe 1 1/2 yrs. old.

I have seen this once before where the antlers are just barely more than a button but weak even for a spike. They are not broken off, just very short. Can anyone explain what's going on here? Just stunted growth or what? The herd seems to be healthy. Thanks.

Agreed--very late-born yearling buck. Button bucks do not grow hardened bone antlers like that. He was probably several months younger than other yearling bucks and just wasn't old enough to put much growth-effort into antlers this last summer.

I've seen (and killed) little yearlings with "acorn" antlers like that during doe culling projects.