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
D'oh!
Shouldn't that start with "Peaceful ..." or "Innocent ..." or something like that?
Where are her antlers?
I think Rock Hudson had a lot in common with that deer
Janet Reno?
With an arrow? Stick-bow? Recurve or longbow? 300 yards is pretty far unless you had the wind at your back. No problem with the rest of it. Saw a one-arm golfer hit one off the tee about 500 yards. Kind of embarrassing to the rest of us.
Now, what's "wrong" is either intentional, or they don't know any better. The dumbing down of America.
She's performing "The Antler Dance"
Long bow. Of course I had it reduced to 3 feet long and fitted with a special "pull" nob so I could use my teeth. With the shorter length it created about 400 lbs of thrust -- which explains the distance despite the wind.
What -- you calling me a liar!
I think she can convince a plate of spaghetti to come to attention
KEWL!
Only half kidding. We wasted half an hour in a for real English Grammar class in college over this. He don't. He doesn't. I am. I ain't. You are. He ain't. They aren't. Some get real insistent, and that ain't no laughing matter.
One problem: Dennis The Menace Rodman hit it. I couldn't follow that trail....
Would "male utilities"be the gas or electric bill??!!
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