Deer Anatomy
This is the soft material that covers, protects, and provides nutrients to antlers
What is velvet?
This is the term used to describe the number of species that a habitat can support.
What is carrying capacity?
This is the minimum number required to antler archery harvested deer into the Pope and Young Record books.
What is 125 inches?
This is the purpose of a fawn's spots.
What is camouflage?
This is the pawed off area of the ground used to distribute scents among deer.
What is a scrape?
This term describes the deer's digestive (gastrointestinal) system.
What is a ruminant?
This is the month when most fawns are born.
What is May?
This is another name for a buck's G-1s.
What are brow tines?
DAILY TRIPLE: This is an old-school hunting tagging system that allowed you the option of shooting a buck or a doe.
What is hunter's choice?
This is the month when bucks most often, lose their antlers.
What is January?
DAILY DOUBLE: This promotes swelling in the necks of bucks during the breeding season (rut).
What are blood vessels?
DAILY DOUBLE: These are the two most common goals of quality deer management.
What is increase populations and trophy potential?
These are the three factors that affect antler size.
What are age, nutrition, and genetics?
This newly legalized weapon has created for an increase in over 3,300 bucks harvested from last year to this year.
What is the crossbow? Vertical bows only accounted for an increase of 300 bucks harvested
This is a tree that's been scratched into by a buck's antlers.
What is a rub?
These anatomical feature is what is used to age deer.
What are teeth?
This is the number one factor when determining carrying capacity of a habitat for deer.
What is food?
This is the minimum size requirement for a gun harvested deer to make the Boone and Crockett record book.
What is 170 inches?
This is a term used when deer herd together during the winter months for security and protection.
What is yarding?
These two factors are what differentiate antlers from horns.
What are hollow/solid and fall off every year/permanent?
These two factors determine if a doe will have multiple offspring.
What is age and nutrition?
This ratio is one lesser goal of quality deer management.
What is buck to doe ratio?
This is another name for abnormal or nontypical points.
What are sticker points or drop tines?
DAILY TRIPLE: These are the five common sounds made by a whitetail deer.
What is grunt, wheeze, snort, bleat, and growl?
This is the main difference between the gross score of a typical deer and the gross score of a nontypical deer.
What is the inclusion of abnormal points?