72 year old woman harvests 9 point doe

[cbrick]

A 72-year-old Ida woman who was hunting deer on her property in north-central Arkansas has harvested a 9-point doe. Maxine Byrd was hunting near Ida in Cleburne County when she killed the deer with her 7mm Magnum rifle on a 60-yard shot. Her son, Terry Byrd, says he was helping dress the animal when he realized "this deer doesn't have the right parts" to be a buck.

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologist Sonny Thompson confirmed the deer is female. Deer program coordinator Cory Gray said he's seen about three similar deer, but they usually have gnarly antlers that are not fully developed like the one killed by Byrd.

Commission officials told Byrd to count the deer as a buck because she had already tagged it that way.
Byrd had already taken an 8-point buck with her muzzle-loading rifle.

[Hickory]

She sounds like a good ol' Byrd.

[starmac]

I had a friend that killed a nice 8 point doe in east Texas, it was nice enough that he had it mounted. It hung in his office along with the newspaper article about it. lol
I also knew a gal that killed an antlered mule deer doe, in eastern New Mexico.They are rare, but show up from time to time.

[DCM]

Interesting

[Hardcast416taylor]

I seem to remember hearing this story several years back about a Lady shooting a she/he deer.Robert

[FISH4BUGS]

Hey....same with humans....I have seen women that I can't tell if they are a he or a she. Likewise I have seen guys that I can't tell.....why should nature be any different?

[rondog]

Not sure which shocks me more - an antlered doe, or a 72 y.o. woman shooting a 7mm magnum!

[35isit]

That's why regs state Antlered and Antlerless deer. Some does have antlers.

[starmac]

Not sure which shocks me more - an antlered doe, or a 72 y.o. woman shooting a 7mm magnum!

That shocked me too. lol One tough old granny. lol

[cbrick]

Not sure which shocks me more - an antlered doe, or a 72 y.o. woman shooting a 7mm magnum!


That shocked me too. lol One tough old granny. lol

We've got some tough ole Byrd's in these parts. :mrgreen:

The story is a cut & paste from todays paper, title & all.

Rick

[rondog]

My wife has a friend that could probably qualify as an "antlered doe". Or at least a bull.....big ol' gal with short, spiky hair. A real "large and in charge" type.

[Gator 45/70]

I once got drunk down on Bourbon St. and........Never mind.

[r6487]

Maxine and Terry are good people and we have lots of gals that hunt, plenty with man sized rifles.

[TXGunNut]

Yep, some girls like big guns. I've seen an antlered doe on a friend's game cam but never in person. Mother Nature makes a mistake now and then, or maybe she has a sense of humor after all.

[1Shirt]

More power to her! Hope she can hunt till she is 100~
1Shirt!

[Ed Barrett]

Was that deer shot down near the nuclear power plant?

[thekidd76]

I've seen an antlered doe on a friend's game cam but never in person.

I'm curious so I'll bite...what tipped it off on a game cam that it was a doe? With a couple fawns?

[leeggen]

My kind of a women!!
CD

[winelover]

A couple of weeks ago, while hunting my property, a dysfunctional group of four whitetails passed by my blind. First was a spike, followed by a fawn that still had feint spots. A second fawn ran off, while a 6 point came through. About five minutes elapsed, when the 6 point returned and collected the fawn that had run off in the other direction.:idea: Could it be that the 6 point was another Arkansas antlered doe :?: Will never know for sure. I chose not to use my last buck tag on this particular 6 point. There was still two weeks left in gun season and I knew that there were a couple of very nice bucks still at large.

Winelover

[TXGunNut]

I'm curious so I'll bite...what tipped it off on a game cam that it was a doe? With a couple fawns?

No fawns, I doubt a deer with mixed up genes would successfully reproduce. Pic clearly indicated missing equipment normally found a buck.

[reloader28]

She's lucky. Around here she would have been fined by the Game and Fish for shooting a doe on a buck tag.

[turmech]

I kill these probably 10 years ago. The larger typical buck was a male. I am still not sure what the smaller racked deer was (doe or buck). It did not have male parts. And if they were female parts they were not normal. The DNR thought it was a male that got castrated by an injury. They said they seen it all the time and did not seem interested in it at all. I found it very unusual.


Why I kill two deer that morning is a unique story as well. I shot the larger deer first ( strangely with a 7 mag same as the OP's original story). The deer ran 75 yards or so and went into some tall grass at the edge of a field where I was sure it went down. Minutes later standing at the edge of the grass was the second deer which I though certainly was the original buck who got up. I shot the second deer and to my surprise had two.

[r6487]

in Arkansas our definitions are antler or antlerless not buck or doe.