Re: First Proof of This I've Seen...
[Re: Tony1967]
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09/22/22 09:05 PM
09/22/22 09:05 PM
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We have had a couple instances of this in my area this year as well. Fawns sighted within the last couple weeks just having been born. What is happening to cause this? Gotta be climate change; better hurry up and buy an electric car.
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Re: First Proof of This I've Seen...
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
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09/22/22 09:26 PM
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Posts: 615 Alabama
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In the early 2000's, we (DNR staff) collected the reproductive tracts from 70 does harvested near the Ga-Fl line in early December. 5% were bred in late Sept. 90% were bred in late October, 5% were not yet visibly bred when they were killed in December. [/quote] I hunt in central Alabama. Our DNR staff said the majority of our deer are bred during mid January. In recent years our “late rut” in February is very active. Our does start dropping in August/September. I’ve seen a heavily spotted fawn in late December once. We will see a pregnant doe or 2 on game cameras late September. This deer was Sept 1.
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Re: First Proof of This I've Seen...
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
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09/22/22 10:14 PM
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JP, Pics are great but we take you as a credible outdoorsman LOL. I know your skulls and taxidermy work speaks for itself. Too bad about being Canadian.
Keep track of spots and let us know how that one winters.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: First Proof of This I've Seen...
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
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09/23/22 12:23 AM
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Here in Montana first rut is in Nov. Second one is in Dec. Usually when the yearling or first fawn deer cycle.
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Re: First Proof of This I've Seen...
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
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09/23/22 12:36 AM
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I've never seen just-past-spots fawn here in the fall or early winter. And if they did, it wouldn't survive the winter. We've (the SD state game agency) never let out lots and lots of deer tags, the most I've seen for a single tag was for 3 anterless. In the 1980s, a lot fewer tags in East River than today.
I think it was in 1985 and I had 2 tags (the first was as designed shooter for my blind father) and the 2nd was my own tag. Our rifle season for East River is (or typically was) short, usually about 9 days. I dumped a big nice doe for dad and then the next weekend I went out and popped the first deer that jumped up (I had finals to study for). It was a little WT doe. I drove home that night to process it and checked how much it weighed in my arms on a bathroom scale, 64 pounds field dressed (South Dakotans tend to field dress deer and not gut them out at home as some folks usually do). My brother shot a 1 1/2 year buck down on Ft Hood that year (with a .223 Mini-14) and field dressed that young buck weighed 67 pounds. I suspect my little doe that year was born in June from a "2nd rut" December breeding...
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: First Proof of This I've Seen...
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
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09/23/22 09:53 AM
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OK, I'm way up North of most of you that posted here, but I saw a pair of spotted fawns last year that were about the size of a Springer Spaniel in the first week of November. That's the first I had ever seen anything like that . Their tracks were about the size of a quarter. I believe one survived the winter according to a neighbor that was watching them.
I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!
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