Well, once again, when we're right, we're right. We told you earlier about the new evil ambush technique that deer were preparing. They plan to disguise themselves as volleyball nets and wait for unsuspecting players to charge the net. Well, the does are not going to leave it for the bucks to have all the fun, nosiree. They are going to get in on the action by growing racks of their very own. Why are you looking at us like that? We have proof!
MICHIGAN, N.D. – When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe.
"It's got no male utilities," said Erickson, who lives in Minot. "It has teats … it was pretty unusual."
Six hunting partners with Erickson witnessed the doe with a 4-by-4 rack.
"I'm sure this story will be around for 10 years," he said. "At least in our group."
Erickson notified the state Game and Fish Department and received a voice mail from a biologist who said these types of deer often are bucks whose testicles haven't descended or for some reason are castrated. Erickson said that is not the case with his deer, however.
"We couldn't find any male genitals on the deer," he said.
"We turned it over, and I got a lot of heat over that. Like I was supposed to know," Erickson joked.
Gary Rankin, district game warden in Larimore, said he has seen a couple of antlered does over the years, but for a doe to have a well-developed rack is unusual.
Well developed racks, male utilities. You can't make this stuff up! But we keep telling people about these serious threats from the Animal Uprising™, even though people keep calling the authorities on us. We happen to think we'll look spiffy in that white sport coat the nice man showed us the last time he came around.
The sleeves looked a little long, though.
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