Loughmatt 1939 Odocoileus hemionus Stay a While Spring, 5150 ft., Columbia Co., Wash. July 29 velvet. The antlers were almost fully developed and would have grown but little more at the tips. The velvet would have been shed in about a month or a little over. The small buck weighed about 150 lbs. and the large one about 250. The larger one was much fatter than the smaller, which was turning all its food into growth. The smaller one, while only a yearling as evidenced by its teeth, had two points on each antler. A blacktail buck of similar age would have only a single spike. The deer were bedded about 1/2-3/4 mi. from the nearest water among scattering conifers and in a heavy growth of Cosmosolus velutinus. Their antlers were evidently hard enough so that the heavy brush didn't bother them. The numerous deer flies also tended to make them seek the heavy brush to bed down. Few small fawn tracks have been seen. Most of the does with fawns