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It is possible to score a female Chinese water deer?
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Q Last month I shot a Chinese water deer doe. She looked to be an oddity because she had a full set of tusks. I think they might be in the medal class; if so, would they be scored in the same way as a buck would be?
A It might be an odd year for Chinese water deer because you are the second person who has asked me this question since the beginning of Tanuary. While female Chinese water deer usually have small, undeveloped tusks — a bit like the doe of muntjac — they don’t, as a rule, have long protruding tusks like the bucks. But from time to time individuals do turn up whose tusks are more
