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
It was a deer, not a cross between a cow and a pig, that none other in the herd would have anything to with.
i think they can use an atlatl in PA..
This is yet another sign that we are Doomed!
Well, if he/she had been shot down here we would have found that it ain't got no utilities.
A butch doe? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
A trans-gendered deer?
Would that be a heshe dear?
is ND considered for your midwest ping?
Geeze I know a few "does" with well developed racks of their own.
The ranger used a poor choice of words IMO.
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.
Then by all means, wrap it in a flannel blanket and tie it across the hood of a Suburu.
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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
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!
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.
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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.
And....the jokes write themselves!
LOL! It's a very odd phrase. :)
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