[Rhodes22-list] Female With Nice Rack

[Slim]

Brad,

So exactly what's so unusual about a female with a nice rack?
(Sorry, I'm going to bed now.)

Slim

On 12/1/06 6:38 AM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Been a bit busy lately to participate with 'da list' but thought this
> worthwhile.  Enjoy.  Brad
> 
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> 
> Man shoots doe with rack of antlers
> 
> Mon Nov 27, 10:31 PM ET
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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