Minnesota's bow opener wasn't terrible for me... other than the hot weather and mosquiotoes, it felt great to be out. I didn't see alot of movement, but what there was was interesting. I saw a doe coming slowly up on my left, and had my bow drawn when I noticed movement behind her. It was a fawn that still had fading spots on it. Needless to say I didn't want to orphan the little one, so I didn't make the shot. Since it was the first time out this year, I didn't mind at all, though. That being said. Is it normal for a fawn to have spots this late in the year? I can't remember seeing it after July/August personally. Thanks
Yea last year i had one run up on me opening weekend win ohio, the spots were fading but you could still see them.
I was kind of wondering if it was late born. It was pretty small, but the mama wasn't a big girl herself. She didn't look like she was much older than 2.5. May have been a late breed/late born thing. Either way, it was nice to see something on the first day of the season.
Many years back I saw a spotted fawn all by itself in a field in early October. It couldn't have weighed 30 lbs on the hoof.
While the majority of the fawns we see in early season have lost their spots, I always see a few with spots way into mid Oct or later. I don't know how that works as far north as you are, but here in Texas, even in the Panhandle, lots of last year's fawns are bred late December and the SUPPOSED reason we see a percent of fawns with spots for some time into the season. We assume they are 1.5 yo doe because they are smaller in size themselves and they are nearly always single fawns rather than twins. Both of these, smaller doe and single fawn, you mentioned as well.
