So, out of curiosity, how do you know it is not a fawn with 2" spikes? It's hard to believe you have a 1.5 year old buck that only weighs 60 lbs. You must have some mighty small deer on your place.

Or, in my case, it could have been some type of an anomaly where a very early fawn grew a 6" set of spikes. Unless it was some type of dwarf, there is NO WAY it was a year old, either!!!

On our property, all late buck fawns from the previous year weigh nearly 100 lbs by the next hunting season. I've seen quite a few over the years and have NEVER seen one that still only weighed around 50 lbs.

I know what I saw and what you didn't see. It had a fawn's head. It had around 6" spikes coming out of that fawn shaped head. Another experience hunter who has always been very accurate in his descriptions of deer saw a fawn with several inch spikes. We can tell the difference between a fawn and yearling. We both concluded it was a fawn. Actually, my son, also saw it.

I guess unless the deer are killed and the teeth looked at, we will never know for certain if they were fawns or yearlings.