Ten High Outfitters Whitetail Deer Hunting in Texas

The deer's coat is a reddish-brown in the spring and summer and turns to a grey-brown throughout the fall and winter. The deer can be recognized by the characteristic white underside to its tail, which it shows as a signal of alarm by raising the tail during escape.

North American male deer (also known as a buck) usually weighs from 130 to 300 pounds but, in rare cases, bucks in excess of 375 pounds  have been recorded. The record-sized White-tailed Deer weighed just over 500 pounds and was harvested in Minnesota. The female (doe) usually weighs from 90 to 165 pounds, but some can weigh as much as 200 to 230 pounds. Length ranges from 62 to 87 inches, including the tail, and the shoulder height is 32 to 40 inches. White-tailed deer from the tropics tend to be much smaller than temperate populations, averaging 77-110 pounds. Bucks with very small antlers, about 3 in. or less, are often termed "button bucks" or "spiked bucks". Some may even have their antler pedicles hidden in the hair and can be mistaken for a doe. Bucks less than two years of age typically have short spiked antlers. However the number of points or thickness of the antlers do not determine the age of a buck. A buck's inside spread can be anywhere from 3–25 in. For more information on whitetail deer visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer.