Doe with Antlers?????

[Bukslayr]

What is the proper way to handle this situation?

First-
You are carrying in your wallet a valid hunting license, an "any sex" bow tag, and an "antlerless" bow tag. The deer is an antlered doe.

Second-
You shoot a nice 8 pointer and once you recover the deer you notice that it does NOT have an male genitals.

Can you put your anterless tag on the deer or not?
Anterless tags were designed to help control the doe population correct?

What is the proper way on handling this situation?

By the way this has never happened to me and if it ever does I would like to know the proper way to handle it.

Personally I would think that legally you would have to use your any sex tag.

 

[IA ML'r]

The regs define an antlerless deer this way:

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An antlerless deer is a
deer with no forked antler

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So unlike Spring turkey hunting which specifically mentions sex:

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bearded or male wild turkey

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No provision is made to allow an antlered doe to be an "Antlerless" deer even though we all know "antlerless" is mostly intended to be does.

So in short, yes IMO it would need to be tagged with an anysex tag.

 

[bowmaker]

I agree completely! The regualtions refer only to head gear not plumbing. Use the any sex tag, have it mounted and then go shoot a REAL doe.

 

[30pointbuck]

Buk, This happened to my brother 3 years ago. One of the wierdest things I have seen. It was during 2nd shotgun season and it still had its velvet. I guess a doe would have no reason to lose its velvet by rubbing trees and leaving scent behind like the bucks......But to answer your question, it is considered an antlered deer, so it requires an either sex tag or an antlered only.....(which I don't believe antlered only exist any more, do they?)
This thing generated a ton of good conversation though where we were staying. Imagine the life of such a deer.(Hamafrodytes)sp

 

[teeroy]

antlerless tag........ANTLER LESS

pretty self explanitory.