Predator may have come by to get some fresh humanburger
I think the writer was referring to any small deer with small antlers as “dinky”...
I have hunted since 1960 and have 53 deer to my credit...My biggest was a 6 point...Like I said, you can’t eat antlers and I taught my son that the first legal deer you see goes in the freezer...
We have actually went several years without buying hardly any hamburger cause we had a lot of deer ground up in our freezer...