antler growth

[deerhunter10]

How much more antler growth is expected from now to mid september.

[vister]

for the most part, growth is almost over now. Some deer i have been seeing in trail cams have are about ready to start shedding velvet. the big boys may still be growing though, as i have a few darn nice bucks on camera and they have real rounded ends, kinda ball like, which means they are still growing. in the trail cam post, i thought i saw a buck already done rubbing off the velvet.

[Bear55]

Yep for most part they are done growing. The antlers will be hardening and bucks will lose their velvet in late Aug and early September. I've always wanted to take a velvet buck on the bow opener but they are very rare.

[Flatcoats]

just saw on an Iowa forum that some bucks are starting to lose velvet right now.

[paceman]

I was in South Dakota last weekend and I saw an Elk and a Deer both shedding there velvet. But they were in a Zoo....

[benbosh]

just seen a nice 8 pt on my familys land tonight, still in full velvet. come 6:19 a.m. on sept 13th, velvet or no velvet hes mine