The county’s main wild meat. Flag of white tail, summer red coat, winter gray.

A large ungulate. Does and fawns stay in family groups; bucks are more solitary except rut. Fawns are spotted. Tracks are split hearts.

Habitat

Woods edges, creek bottoms, crop fields. They bed in multiflora and cane.

Season

Year-round. Rut November. Fawns late May–June.

Size

100–200 lb field-dressed typical

Field marks

White tail flag; no black-tipped tail like mule deer (not here)

Indiana has chronic wasting disease in deer. Do not shoot or eat an animal that looks sick, thin, or unafraid. Avoid brain and spinal tissue. Vehicle collisions are the real daily danger on US-50 and the creek roads.