let's talk about button bucks

what do you considered a button buck?

Yearlings!

My first deer I harvested was very similar to picture B, sure tasted good!

 

Not yearlings. A yearling has been alive for over a year. These have not, they're fawns

 

Shoot whatever trips your trigger and you don't have to justify it to anyone.

 

Correct


This is a 1.5 YO yearling.








BB are buck fawns not yearlings.

 

Both are button bucks. Usually you can't count a point on a rack unless it is over an inch. So unless his spikes are over an inch, I still call it a button buck. And I pass on both.

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Any buck that has less than legal spike length I consider the same, whether the antler is not showing or 15/16".

You can shoot them if you want, but I try not to shoot any yearling buck or doe, not enough meat on the bones.

 

Your rational is confusing; if you will shoot #1 you might as well shoot #2 because they are both male fawns. I do not shoot them (I pass several every season) but I don't care if anybody else does. Sounds like you are just trying to justify shooting small deer. Seriously man shoot what you like and be happy, don't worry about what anybody else thinks. In PA an antlerless deer is defined as: "Antlerless deer—A deer without antlers, or a deer with antlers both of which are less than 3 inches in length."

 

Both in my humble opinion!

 

both are "button bucks" in my book, and I would avoid shooting them both. When venison hunting, I look for a yearling doe. Yummmm

 

I see you edited your post, but YOU are still wrong. A button buck is NOT a yearling.

 

aren't you just a tough little button buck....

 

Your tag, your time, your money, your choice. Just making a quick kill and eat what you shoot.

 

I have shot both of these types - but now I wouldn't shot either (on purpose). I consider a button buck to be a buck fawn.

Late in the year a buck fawn can look like a big doe...

 

I think both are button bucks. I usually spend a minute or two squinting before I shoot a doe to be sure. As usual I don't care what other people shoot in their woods.

 

I think according to the laws here in KS pic 1 is a button, pic 2 is technically a spike. I'd shoot neither but that's just because I have different management goals here on our farm. To each their own if you'd like to shoot one of the above.

 

Both are button bucks/fawn bucks. I've killed them when I mistook for a doe in late season.

This past Saturday I had a big doe walk by with twin button bucks. Glassed the little one really good and gave all 3 the pass. If that doe is dropping twin bucks I'd like to keep her in the mix.