If you're a whitetail nut, I don't know that there's any more exciting part of the offseason than late-summer, when bucks have put on enough antler growth that it's time to start deploying trail ...

The biggest-ticket item was a shoulder-mounted mule deer buck with the velvet still on its antlers, said Maj. Chad Bettridge, a law enforcement officer with the division. It went for $5,500.