TPW TV -- BUCK FEVER: You don't need a thermometer to 
know when someone has "buck fever." Details ahead on 
Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

While hiking, you spy a buck in the distance with large, 
perfectly formed antlers. Your heart races; your breath 
becomes shallow; your nerves tingle. Hunters call this 
buck fever. What do perfect antlers look like?

06 -- Nice smooth lines, tall tines coming off the main beams; 
very symmetrical one side to the other.

John Stein should know; he's curator at the Buckhorn 
Saloon and Museum in San Antonio, where antler and 
taxidermy covered walls draw visitors by the thousands. 

05 -- Overall, in the collection, there's over 12-hundred trophies 
that are on the walls -of all difference species.

Some hunters pay landowners handsomely to bag trophy 
animals -- money that's funneled into land management 
and conservation. For 25 years, deer experts at the Kerr 
WMA have studied the genetic and nutritional aspects of 
antler growth in bucks, and have shared the data with 
landowners; biologist, Gene Fuchs.

15 -- The information that we've gained from this study shows 
that through selection - by never allowing a buck that was a spike 
to ever breed a doe - we produced no spike antler yearling bucks 
two years in a row. And, the percentage of good quality antler 
yearling bucks has steadily increased.

Learn more this week when a segment called Buck Fever 
airs on the TPW PBS TV Series. Check your local listings.

The WSFR program supports our series and funds 
whitetail research in Texas. For Texas Parks and Wildlife, 
I'm Cecilia Nasti.





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