Button buck
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backyardtndeer
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A good pair of binoculars.
Ground check it
I would need a spotting scope. Bad eye sight
Remington700
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Optics and they usually have a different shaped head even if horns are not protruding.
Never shoot a small lone deer that appears to have a short neck
Thank you looking for knowledge not sarcasm
Don't shoot one that far and you won't have to worry about it. I got a buddy that's hell bent on not shooting a button buck. He says after a 100 yards it's a real easy mistake to make.
This time of year if you see a lone yearling then there's a big chance it's a button buck. Although I do have one yearling doe running around by herself. Even if I can't see the buttons I can usually make out through the binoculars if it's a button buck or doe.
skipperbrown
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This. If you see a pair of yearlings, one is most likely a buck. Pick carefully.
Ive never understood this, next year he is gone either way to his own range so their isn't inbreeding
BSK
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Fawns have much shorter faces than adult deer. Visually, the distance from the tip of a fawn's nose to the center of it's eye is almost equal to the distance from the ear-hole to the center of the eye. On an adult doe, the distance from nose-tip to eye is twice the distance from ear-hole to eye. Other visual clues include: fawns have a much shorter body trunk than adult does, and fawns have shorter necks and smaller ears than adult does.
But the best advice to reduce the chances of taking fawns (and button bucks specifically) is to not shoot lone antlerless deer. A deer by itself provides no size reference. A lone fawn can look much bigger out by itself than it really is. Another piece of advice, don't shoot the first antlerless deer that walks out into an opening, field, or food plot. Fawns are less wary than adult does and are usually the first to enter a feeding area.
Below, the first two pics are first, an adult doe and second, a fawn. Notice how short the fawns face is. The ear-to-eye and eye-to-nose distances are about the same on a fawn. the third and fourth pictures are a doe and fawn looking at you. The ear-to-eye and eye-to-nose distance differences are still quite apparent even when the deer look at you.
But the best advice to reduce the chances of taking fawns (and button bucks specifically) is to not shoot lone antlerless deer. A deer by itself provides no size reference. A lone fawn can look much bigger out by itself than it really is. Another piece of advice, don't shoot the first antlerless deer that walks out into an opening, field, or food plot. Fawns are less wary than adult does and are usually the first to enter a feeding area.
Below, the first two pics are first, an adult doe and second, a fawn. Notice how short the fawns face is. The ear-to-eye and eye-to-nose distances are about the same on a fawn. the third and fourth pictures are a doe and fawn looking at you. The ear-to-eye and eye-to-nose distance differences are still quite apparent even when the deer look at you.
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Headhunter
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not if you can kill his momma that is why when shooting does I only shoot mommas.
Duck dogn
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I've often wondered knightrider if buttons do find their own ground or stick to same area when they are close to mature
It's almost impossible at that distance. I was wanting a young and tender last week. I saw one at around 100 yards and could not see buttons so made a shot. It Ended up being a button but it was not protruding above the hair line.
Boone25/06
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I'm kinda on your page on this idea. I'm more concerned about my own property that I manage than the neighbors that shoot everything. I completely understand 300 acres isn't enough to keep deer on but doesn't hurt to try. The does are going to stay but like you said young buck will disperse. So in that mindset is shooting a button buck hurting my hunting or the neighbors a mile or more away. Same ones who brown it's down them. I tend to try not to shoot them but if it happens no big deal.
Boone25/06
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I have tired the shooting momma doe to try to keep a piebald buck fawn on property without the desired outcome. He stayed the rest of the season on food plots all day long but was gone come the next season. Who knows what could have happened to him. Just didn't work out in that case.
wsm
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For me ,if I can not tell don,t shoot.Let the little bucks grow .
