Thanks André:

I see my confusion now. I and my son and daughter hunt a variety of animals here on the ranch and in the area but whitetail deer are our really our favorites. As a comparison, our deer shed antlers from December-March and thus in the spring do not have developed antlers at all. The pic's of Peter's and Husqvarna's roedeer show large developed antlers in the spring season {when our deer have no antlers at all or only knobs starting to grow} so I thought the roebucks must not shed them. But if roebucks begin shedding antlers in October that explains the mystery. They must go through their velvet stage in the winter and begin rubbing in late-winter? That would give them the time to show hard antler by this spring season.

There is something quite interesting and curious about the roedeer to me and my son. We never tire of seeing pictures of them. They are so much like our whitetails and yet so different. In pictures they LOOK similar in body to our deer but only a fawn whitetail around here would be carried like Husqvarna carried his. A mature whitetail buck here weighs 150-250 lbs {68-114 kg's} with some rare examples going even bigger than that. With our mountains and rough terrain making for very tough work getting them home, we sometimes wish our whitetails were a lot smaller!!

And again a difference is that we have so many hunters, hunting being the sport of the masses that a spring season would never do here like the roebuck season in Danmark and Sverige.

Roedeer, rådyr, das Reh, chevreuil, whatever they go by, they are indeed fascinating animals and we really enjoy seeing posts about the hunting of them!

Thanks guys!