Thread: Please Tell Us About Antler Growth

Originally Posted by Tahr

Last week. NI public land (Craig, not me). Meanwhile there are still spikers and small stags that haven't shed yet.

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Thats because Mother Nature timed it so that theyre all in to hard antler about the same time, just prior to the roar. Big stags need more time to grow their antlers than the younger or smaller ones, so they drop earlier to give them more growing time up until about mid Feb. If a stag has a pretty decent lot of velvet now, chances are he will be a somewhat large in Feb.