White-tailed Deer Trucker Cap
White-tailed Deer Trucker Cap
Size & fit
One size fits most, with an adjustable plastic snapback. Structured six-panel, mid profile, pre-curved visor; mesh back.
Odocoileus virginianus, the white-tailed deer's name today, stitched across the front. No picture and no slogan: the people who know it will read it.
The cap
- The species' scientific name today, embroidered in white on the front, genus over species, set in EB Garamond italic.
- Richardson 112 trucker: 60% cotton, 40% polyester front with a 100% polyester mesh back.
- Spot clean; don't put it in the dryer.
Shipping & production
Each one is made for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days. Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay; items from different makers may arrive in separate boxes.
Returns
If your cap arrives damaged, misprinted or defective, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every cap is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Field notes
"Common," Audubon called it. Fifty years later it nearly wasn't.
Audubon and Bachman called it the "Common or Virginian Deer," and in the 1840s common was the right word. The plate shows a pair at a creek's edge: the doe drinking, the buck behind her with his head up, white throat patch bright against a summer coat.
By the end of the 1800s, market hunting and the clearing of eastern forests had cut whitetails to perhaps 300,000 across the continent. In much of the East a deer track was news. The turn came with laws: the Lacey Act of 1900 made it a federal crime to ship illegally killed game across state lines, states set seasons and limits, and game departments moved deer into empty range, paid for largely by hunters.
It worked almost too well. Today there are roughly thirty to thirty-five million white-tailed deer, in suburbs, on farm edges, in woods your grandfather never saw one in.
- 1845–48Audubon and Bachman's "Common or Virginian Deer."
- c. 1900About 300,000 left across the continent.
- 1900The Lacey Act ends the interstate trade in illegal game.
- TodayRoughly 30–35 million.