I'llsay it again: "Two great countries seperated by a commom language." In the Us we have two native deer, and their subspecies, the white-tail and the mule deer. Elk are not considered by most hunters to be 'deer.' With our deer, we have fawns called button bucks and doe fawns. Next comes yearlings, does or fawns. We call most deer with on fork on at least one side spikes. These are usually yearlings, but can have inferior genes. I once shot a 5yr old buck with 2" spikes. I'll be hunting a 'spike' Elk this year that has had basically 'spikes,' less than three points for three years. After that we have does and bucks, with the bucks differentiated buy the number of points. East of the Rocky Mtns it's the total points, West of the Rockies it's the number on one side minus the brow tine. This reflecks the fact that most mule deer have small or no brow tines. Elk are cows, bulls and calves, and count points. A young bull with small 6-8pts is called a raghorn. Our 'exotic deer'; sika, axis, and fallow are called the same as our native deer. In texas we have some growing herds of red deer. they are generally refered to as bucks and does, some call them cows and bulls and those in the know, all six of us, call them stags and hinds. Any adult female without offspring is called barren. capt david