I have received several queries from readers who asked about “velvet bucks”—also known as “cactus bucks” or (incorrectly) as “stag bucks.” These are all names that people sometimes use to refer to bucks that don’t shed the velvet on their antlers in the fall. Such bucks are found occasionally throughout the range of Whitetail Deer, but they occur at a relatively high frequency in the Llano Uplift area in Mason and Llano counties.