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Out yesterday evening hoping for a pig in the potatoe and corn fields in the new section of our concession. Spotted a fox and squeaked him in, then I saw this young buck. I did not hesitate and dropped him with my .275 Rigby shooting factory 139 grain Hornady SSTs. A good cull / management buck to take off. Interesting that he is still in velvet when he should have been clean and shed weeks ago! Weighed 9 kgs. In total 11 roe deer seen between 8 pm and 10 pm. Sat til 2 am but no boar! Happy days!







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A poor looking buck - even for last years - I've shot a few (hundred) myself!!

Was he OK on gralloching?

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No parasites, hooves clean, head, eyes, ears, mouth all ok. Liver spotless, lungs fine, spleen, kidneys all fine. Thinking maybe a young Peruckenbock and some damage to his reproductive bits? Although nothing visible.

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Waidmannsheil!

Nice one to take.

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No parasites, hooves clean, head, eyes, ears, mouth all ok. Liver spotless, lungs fine, spleen, kidneys all fine. Thinking maybe a young Peruckenbock and some damage to his reproductive bits? Although nothing visible.


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Yes, seems the most likely explanation considering everything else you have checked off.

Congratulations and thanks for posting! Nice to see some results there. It's still a long time until deer hunting seasons here in Oklahoma open up.

If you cut through the skull, for preparing the trophy, it is highly probable that you find a plenty of fly larves.

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No larva at all in the nasal passages. Checked that !


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Waidmannsheil, interesting. Agree possible Peruckenbock, or he was born awfully late last year.

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Waidmannsheil, interesting. Agree possible Peruckenbock, or he was born awfully late last year.

Never really happens - Roe have delayed blastocyte implantation - so all the eggs become implanted within 2 days at the end of January - and all kids are born in a similarly short period. A very good survival strategy - too much food for foxes to get more than a small percentage.