Still in velvet?

[Bill]

Thoughts on this one. Still in velvet or bad lighting.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Still in velvet, but I would say he is hard horned underneath the velvet. Maybe lost his nuts in early August.

 

[Telemark]

Texture looks like velvet, but shape and thickness don't. Maybe strange light, or just an unusual texture. Could even just be frost.

That said, the lower rear edge of the left main beam really does look hairy. Maybe Turkey Creek is right.

 

[Mortenson]

Doesn't velvet become black by this time of the year? Maybe not always?

 

[Bill]

I’m honestly not sure. I glassed him during the season and even video taped him with the zoom as much as I could zoom in and still get a clear pic. Looked like velvet kinda then too.

It could even be an antlered doe I suppose.

 

[Turkey Creek]

It only becomes black in my experience once they rub the hair off it. In my mind it looks just like the freeze dried racks with velvet on them that I have seen. It is definitely not still in the growing phase, no bulbous tips. I feel like it grew the antlers, but then did not have the hormones kick in for it to start rubbing trees and brush to remove the velvet.