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One would think deer hunter Dick Cagle has seen it all.

Cagle, 68, has been hunting ever since he was knee high to a grasshopper, which goes back 60 years, when he received a 20-gauge double-barrel shotgun.

Come to think of it, Cagle still has that old gun, and he’s mighty proud of it.

Cagle, who lives in La Crosse but winters down south, shot what he thought was a buck early Wednesday morning south of La Crosse. Little did he know that the six-point deer was a doe — well, sort of.

Cagle, who was hunting with his son, said the deer also had partial male organs.

“I’ve been hunting probably 60 years, and this is a first for me,” said Cagle, shaking his head, but admiring the huge deer, estimated at more than 200 pounds before it was field-dressed.

Cagle used a crossbow and shot the deer from about 20 paces. Wisconsin hunters older than 65 are eligible to use crossbows.

“The base of the rack looks like fried eggs on each side,” Cagle said of the hermaphrodite, an animal with both male and female organs.

The deer also was in velvet, a stage of antler development. However, most male deer are well past the velvet stage at this time of the year.

On rare occasions, female white-tailed deer develop antlers. Biologists believe it is due to an abnormally high level of testosterone. One female in several thousand white-tailed does will grow antlers because of this hormone imbalance.

Antler growth in bucks usually begins in March or April. Antlers are fully grown by August or early September, only a few weeks before the bow hunting season begins.

“I still can’t believe it,” said Cagle, scratching his head.