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The Hole in the Horn Buck is officially listed as the second largest non-typical white-tailed deer of all time by the Boone and Crockett Club. The buck’s antlers score 328 2/8 non-typical points. The name of the buck derives from the mysterious hole in the buck’s right antler. The hole came from the pub where the buck was hanging.
Male O. v. nelsoni with antlers in velvet. The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes. [3]
Odocoileus is a genus of medium-sized deer (family Cervidae) containing three species native to the Americas. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The name is sometimes spelled odocoeleus ; it is from a contraction of the roots odonto- and coelus meaning "hollow-tooth".
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) occurs in aspen parklands and deciduous river bottomlands within the central and northern Great Plains, and in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain regions from Wyoming to southeastern British Columbia. It is an occasional ...
So this year, the whitetail rut of 2024 should unfold as it did in 2005, 1986 and 1967, the 19-year increments. Whitetails, and actually other “short-day breeders” like sheep and other ...
Whitetail deer are the most popular animal to hunt out of a tree stand, [citation needed] but other animals can be hunted from tree stands. Tree stands can give the hunter an advantage, as the hunter sits up in a tree. This allows the hunter to see over intervening brush and vegetation that might otherwise block the hunter's view of approaching ...
The refuge was specifically created to provide a protected habitat for endangered Columbian white-tailed deer. By 2015, the deer population in the Lower Columbia River region, which includes Julia Butler Hansen and the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge , had doubled to 900, allowing the species to receive a recommendation to be reclassified ...
One of the principal means of distinguishing the closely related black-tailed deer and white-tailed deer is the growth habit of the buck's antlers. In the case of the Black Tail and California mule deer, the antlers fork in an upward growth, whereas the other species' antlers grow in a forward direction.