Saw this on Whitetail Overload’s Facebook page. One of the craziest photos I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of crazy deer photos in my day. This was obviously caused by some sort of injury to the deer and the rack (hit by car I would suspect) but how that beam (black because the velvet dried hard on it) grew down and through the deer’s mouth defies explanation. There is always something new and unusual to see in the whitetail world.

This respected group holds an annual conference whereby biologists, managers and researchers present their recent findings on deer biology and management. The 2014 meetings just wrapped in Georgia. I followed QDMA Tweets from the conference, #SEDSG. Some science hot off the press: • Researchers at Auburn University found that bucks both young and old react negatively to hunting pressure in the same way. They also found that bucks are 4 times more likely to come to a food plot in daylight on opening day as later in the season. • Troubling finding #1: EHD disease continues to expand northward in the U.S. and further outbreaks are expected. Furthermore, new strains of EHD are showing up and problematic because individual deer [...]