Saw a nice 8 with it hanging off last week when I was checking a stand. Small 7 and 5 that hit my bird feeders everyday are still in velvet. A farm we hunt has 9 buck bachloered up and only 1 is out of velvet as of Tuesday evening.
Saw two young bucks on the drive into the office this morning, both completely cleaned off.
Saw another while out walking during lunch that had some scraps still clinging around the bases, but mostly off.
Maple Glen/Upper Dublin areas.
Ive seen probably 15 bucks out of velvet as of today but the 4 biggest bucks from 120 to 140 still in velvet plus i seen 4 rubs hanging stands this pass weekend.
Saw three bucks and all were still in velvet during last evening's survey route. Saw the first one of the year out of velvet on tonight's survey route.
Right now I'm not getting any deer pictures to tell if their in velvet or not. Coyotes got everything run off, a large pack moved in and all my pictures are coyotes. They howl and carry on all night, I'm hoping one will meet the 223 here soon and maybe they will move on.
During our wildlife survey routes we saw three bucks on September 2nd. All three were still in velvet.
On the September 3rd route we only saw one buck but he was out of velvet. Last night, September 5th, we saw another buck and he was out of velvet.
These were different routes each evening. As typically happens here, it is rare to see one out of velvet before the first of September then by the end of the first week of September it is rare to see one still in velvet.
I have been watching a group of bucks for a couple of weeks now. As of this past weekend only 2 were still in velvet. The rest were all hard horned. I found probably 20 rubs today while scouting for acorns!
I pulled a camera card yesterday and had a picture on the 10th of a ten point that had shed and a nine point on the 13th that was just starting to shed and an eight point that was still in velvet on the 13th.
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