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    Antler drop

    So the novelty of finding deer at the back of the farm is rapidly wearing off, as they have spent quite a bit of time fanging up my new and not so new Pines.

    I was there two weeks ago, and then again for a Sunday ride yesterday on the 2 wheeler, and bugger me there's new damage to the bark on a handful of trees. Quite sharp tine marks, and only a meter or less off the ground, so smallish animals I suspect.

    But I thought all stags would have dropped their antlers by now??

    Or do Fallow hold onto their hatracks a lot longer than reds and sika??

    Like some others on this forum with land, I shoot the farm reasonably frequently, but you have to be there when they are actually visiting to spot them. They even seem to evade the trail cams. Either that or they are actually grey ghosts!!!

    All info welcomed.

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    Young spikers of every deer species will hold antlers past sept 20th easily

    As will sambar of any age
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    A big fast bullet beats a little fast bullet every time

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    Shot a couple weeks ago
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    270 is a harmonic divisor number[1]
    270 is the fourth number that is divisible by its average integer divisor[2]
    270 is a practical number, by the second definition
    The sum of the coprime counts for the first 29 integers is 270
    270 is a sparsely totient number, the largest integer with 72 as its totient
    Given 6 elements, there are 270 square permutations[3]
    10! has 270 divisors
    270 is the smallest positive integer that has divisors ending by digits 1, 2, …, 9.

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    OK. Thanks.

    Probably my fault...sitting in the warmth looking at the lap top instead of shivering out on the hill scanning all night
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    Happy to make a Trip up with the thermal gear and help you out

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    I shot two red stags last October both in hard antler.

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    Shot two fallow spikers this evening, one hard little spikes, the other velvet spikes.

 

 

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