I have a buddy coming to try his hand at taking a velvet buck and all of my bucks are still in velvet, but the season is still 8 days away. Anyone seeing hard horned bucks yet??
The thought of KDM and his white manbeard gets me hard horned.
September 1st is the magic date for velvet after that they shed it fast and by the 7th I would guess 90 percent have shed
IMO its a waste to harvest what would be a nice buck prematurely... Never really had a thing for fuzzy antlers personally.
They can get the velvet off real quick too. Last year i passed up small 4x4 that came in to the stand in full velvet. The next evening he was back with only a small piece of velvet hanging off.