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Oddities: N.D. hunter shoots antlered doe in Unit 2B
Grand Forks Herald ^ | November 26, 2006 | Brad Dokken

Posted on 11/28/2006 12:28:10 PM PST by Dr. Zzyzx

Man Shoots Doe With Rack of Antlers

MICHIGAN, N.D. (AP) -- When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe.

"It's got no male utilities," said Erickson, who lives in Minot. "It has teats ... it was pretty unusual."

Six hunting partners with Erickson witnessed the doe with a 4-by-4 rack.

"I'm sure this story will be around for 10 years," he said. "At least in our group."

Erickson notified the state Game and Fish Department and received a voice mail from a biologist who said these types of deer often are bucks whose testicles haven't descended or for some reason are castrated. Erickson said that is not the case with his deer, however.

"We couldn't find any male genitals on the deer," he said.

"We turned it over, and I got a lot of heat over that. Like I was supposed to know," Erickson joked.

Gary Rankin, district game warden in Larimore, said he has seen a couple of antlered does over the years, but for a doe to have a well-developed rack is unusual.

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It is not the first antlered doe to be reported in the region this year. A conservation officer for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reported seeing a 10-point antlered doe shot near Robbin, Minn., during that state's firearms deer season. DNR conservation officers in other parts of Minnesota also reported a handful of antlered does.

Erickson said the antlered doe is a first for his crew, which has been hunting together for 25 years.

"It definitely was a keeper, he said.

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Information from: Grand Forks Herald, http://www.grandforksherald.com


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: antlers; deer; doe; transgendeer
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To: arbooz

It was a deer, not a cross between a cow and a pig, that none other in the herd would have anything to with.


21 posted on 11/28/2006 12:39:49 PM PST by Issaquahking (Trust can't be bought)
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To: 80 Square Miles

i think they can use an atlatl in PA..


22 posted on 11/28/2006 12:40:31 PM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

This is yet another sign that we are Doomed!


23 posted on 11/28/2006 12:40:48 PM PST by woofie (creativity is destructive)
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To: RightWhale

Well, if he/she had been shot down here we would have found that it ain't got no utilities.


24 posted on 11/28/2006 12:40:48 PM PST by GrandEagle
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

A butch doe? Not that there's anything wrong with that.


25 posted on 11/28/2006 12:42:17 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

A trans-gendered deer?

Would that be a heshe dear?


26 posted on 11/28/2006 12:42:34 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: SJackson

is ND considered for your midwest ping?


27 posted on 11/28/2006 12:43:19 PM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

Geeze I know a few "does" with well developed racks of their own.

The ranger used a poor choice of words IMO.


28 posted on 11/28/2006 12:43:27 PM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: All

It's stupid for articles like this to even be written if they are not going to include a photograph. It's like those articles that talk *about* what somebody said or wrote without actually giving the full relevant quotation.


29 posted on 11/28/2006 12:44:06 PM PST by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: Larry Lucido
A butch doe? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Then by all means, wrap it in a flannel blanket and tie it across the hood of a Suburu.

30 posted on 11/28/2006 12:44:57 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..

If you'd like to be on or off this Upper Midwest (WI, IA, MN, MI, and anyone else) list, largely rural issues, please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.


31 posted on 11/28/2006 12:45:06 PM PST by SJackson (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user, T. Roosevelt)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
o- THIS is a nice rack


32 posted on 11/28/2006 12:45:22 PM PST by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: GrandEagle

A sling shot. That might work.

Take one heck of an inner tube though.

Not to mention the forked stick would have to be pretty darned big.

heh


33 posted on 11/28/2006 12:45:59 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: Dr. Zzyzx
Transgendered Deer Murdered by NRA Member -- Boston Globe
34 posted on 11/28/2006 12:46:15 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

This would certainly seem to go against the principles of natural selection, as a rack of antlers greatly increases one's chances of being shot!


35 posted on 11/28/2006 12:46:45 PM PST by jpl (Victorious warriors win first, then go to war; defeated warriors go to war first, then seek to win.)
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To: GrandEagle

Ain't is from first person singular--am. For third person the correct form is don't. Say I ain't, but say he don't. It don't got utilities. Some might quibble that the third person singular is properly doesn't in which case 'it doesn't got utilities.' Either form is correct, but preference is regional.


36 posted on 11/28/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: absolootezer0

Thanks


37 posted on 11/28/2006 12:48:10 PM PST by SJackson (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user, T. Roosevelt)
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

That's nothing. I once killed a 12 point doe. On a full run. From 300 yards. With a bow and arrow. During a nor'easter. With one hand. Had to hump it out of the swamp on my back to my truck 10 miles away. Another hunter thought it was a live dear and shot me with a 30.06 in the leg. When he came to claim his kill I hit him over the head with my bow and had to drag both of them the last three miles.

Nobody believes me.


38 posted on 11/28/2006 12:49:45 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: Dr. Zzyzx
"for a doe to have a well-developed rack is unusual."

And....the jokes write themselves!

39 posted on 11/28/2006 12:49:53 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: steveo
male utilities.... male utilities.... that's something I didn't expect to read this week.

LOL! It's a very odd phrase. :)

40 posted on 11/28/2006 12:50:18 PM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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