DNR officials said they've received a few reports of bucks with their antlers, and at least five calls came in to the Sunday Gazette-Mail reporting buck sightings in the last week. Three of the reports were of large bucks with heavy antlers. Biologist Scott Warner says that in a normal year, most bucks have already lost their antlers by December or January.
Healthy deer shed their antlers annually and grow a new set beginning in early summer.
We have received a couple of calls from people who've seen a few deer running around with antlers,'' said Warner. That's not common. Tony Fields of Hartford in Mason County said he's been seeing bucks with antlers. Normally, the bucks have already shed their antlers by now. But I've seen three bucks here lately, one in Mason County near Lakin and two huge bucks in Meigs County Ohio last weekend.