So Craig and I went driving around here in SE Iowa tonight to check out some deer.  Got some great pics and saw a lot of deer out tonight.  Once I got back to the house I went over the pic of a decent buck we saw tonight.  At first we both noticed tonight that his coat was looking like it should in September, then I started looking him over on the computer and noticed he is clean as a whistle, hard horned!  I guess its not completly that rare, but I think this is the earliest I’ve ever seen one out of velvet.  Here’s the pics from tonight….

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Only thing better would be if it was John Deere green…

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Craig got lippy, so I had to bale him….

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This is the first pic of the hard horn…

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Hard to see, but you can tell from the coat what deer he is…..(middle)

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One of my favorite pics from this summer now…

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Jeff S.