Deer antlers in velvet are soft and easily damaged. That may be one reason why large-antlered bucks at this time of the year are so rarely seen.

By late summer, the velvet will dry up, and the deer will shed it, revealing his hardened antlers. Why do older deer have larger antlers? The size and complexity of antlers are not cumulative.

White-tail deer antlers grow about a quarter of an inch each day, while elk and caribou regrow their antlers at almost an inch daily. Read More: Deer Have Antlers, Walruses Have Tusks ... In a ...

Deer velvet might have an effect due to the hormones it may contain, including testosterone, androstenedione, and dehydroepiandrosterone. Research in rats, using elk velvet antler, suggested the ...

Antler velvet is peeling off our wild whitetail bucks in early September, and is often eaten by the buck as it carefully rubs its antlers on a sapling, or small tree. A buck in hardhorn, recently ...

We’ve all got busy schedules, so when it comes to maximizing our shed-hunting efforts, it’s natural to ask, When do deer shed their antlers? And, ideally, we'd like as precise an answer as ...

The genesis of antlers is a monstrous labor to undertake. For white-tailed deer, the process typically begins in the spring. A tangle of cartilage erupts from the skull, swaddled in fuzzy velvet ...

Once the antlers have reached their peak in size, blood vessels begin to dry up and the velvet becomes annoying to the deer. They rub their antlers against trees to scratch this itch and scrape ...

Not only would the hunter harvest the 175-inch giant, he did it when the buck was shedding his velvet. "He had this one he'd been following since he was 5 1/2 (years old)," said Joe Bumgardner of ...

Deer hunting: MS hunter bags buck with massive 175-inch, partially shed velvet antlers 'He had this one he'd been following since he was 5 1/2 (years old).

Bumgardmer said once a deer begins to rub his antlers to remove the velvet, ... MS hunter bags giant 175-inch buck with partially shed velvet antlers. Show comments. Advertisement.