The number of branches, or "points" on a set of antlers can be used to indicate an individual's age and/or social status....

Antlers are the large and complex horn-like appendages of male deer and of both sexes of other related species such as caribou. They consist of bony outgrowths from the head with no covering of keratin as is found in true horns. Each antler grows from...

Each spring, thousands of elk near Jackson, Wyo shed their antlers. And each spring, Scouts from the Grand Teton Council help personnel from the National Elk Refuge collect the antlers and prepare them for a gigantic fund-raiser. For 40 years, the Boy Scout...

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When Carmen Erickson dropped a deer with a single shot in a cattail slough south of here, he thought he'd downed a nice buck. Unlike his shot, he was a little off. The deer was a doe. "It's got no...

Greg Vincent thought he was kidding when he told his 13-year-old son and a nephew that he could use his hunting knife to handle a snorting buck that was about to charge them.In the woods in Fulton County for last weekend's youth hunt, the group...