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12-16-2003, 09:23 PM
Astonished hunter shoots doe in buck's clothing
By Andrew Dys The Herald
(Published November 12‚ 2003)
FORT MILL -- Sometimes horns don't mean you bagged a buck.
Greg Helms shot a deer Friday, a 165-pound beauty with a 12-point rack almost a foot and a half across.
But, well, the buck lacked manhood.
Helms took the deer to Trail's End Taxidermy in Indian Land, and the skinner turned white as a sheet.
"We checked, and there wasn't what you expect on a buck," said Trails End's Melissa Phillips. "Outside it was a doe. Except the rack, of course."
The deer is a rarity, one out of every 50,000 or so, said Charles Ruth, deer project manager for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. Probably not a hermaphrodite -- parts of two sexes at once -- but a doe with too much testosterone, Ruth said.
"Just like the bearded lady," Ruth said. "A freak of nature."
Phillips makes a living turning deer into trophies, but she's never seen anything like this. "There must have been some male hormones running in there," Phillips said.
"All I know is he was a she," Helms said.
"The rack is gorgeous," said Helms' partner Julie McCoy. "We thought that, maybe, you know, his maleness was inside. But it wasn't."
Helms is no hunting novice. He bagged a white deer, another rarity, a couple of years ago, and has hunted almost all his life. He got this deer on family property not far from the entrance to Tega Cay.
"I can say now I have probably seen it all," Helms said.
"Maybe it's being close to the nuclear station," joked McCoy.
Trail's End is going to make a trophy rack out of this deer, one Helms is either going to call Boe or Bucky. Ruth even said the meat is fine for eating -- but Helms hasn't touched it.
"I'm afraid, to be honest," Helms said. "Something might happen to me, if you get my drift."
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By Andrew Dys The Herald
(Published November 12‚ 2003)
FORT MILL -- Sometimes horns don't mean you bagged a buck.
Greg Helms shot a deer Friday, a 165-pound beauty with a 12-point rack almost a foot and a half across.
But, well, the buck lacked manhood.
Helms took the deer to Trail's End Taxidermy in Indian Land, and the skinner turned white as a sheet.
"We checked, and there wasn't what you expect on a buck," said Trails End's Melissa Phillips. "Outside it was a doe. Except the rack, of course."
The deer is a rarity, one out of every 50,000 or so, said Charles Ruth, deer project manager for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. Probably not a hermaphrodite -- parts of two sexes at once -- but a doe with too much testosterone, Ruth said.
"Just like the bearded lady," Ruth said. "A freak of nature."
Phillips makes a living turning deer into trophies, but she's never seen anything like this. "There must have been some male hormones running in there," Phillips said.
"All I know is he was a she," Helms said.
"The rack is gorgeous," said Helms' partner Julie McCoy. "We thought that, maybe, you know, his maleness was inside. But it wasn't."
Helms is no hunting novice. He bagged a white deer, another rarity, a couple of years ago, and has hunted almost all his life. He got this deer on family property not far from the entrance to Tega Cay.
"I can say now I have probably seen it all," Helms said.
"Maybe it's being close to the nuclear station," joked McCoy.
Trail's End is going to make a trophy rack out of this deer, one Helms is either going to call Boe or Bucky. Ruth even said the meat is fine for eating -- but Helms hasn't touched it.
"I'm afraid, to be honest," Helms said. "Something might happen to me, if you get my drift."
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