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Ran into this guy the other day and had to get a quick video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDmosq5ofiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDmosq5ofiI
Fresh sheds
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ElkTrout
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That is crazy! I have seen a little blood after they shed but never anything like that! Thanks for sharing! Pretty neat you were there to capture that!
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MountainHigh
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Thanks yea when I looked I could see his red face with my naked eye. There was a magpie bird that was trying to eat at it while sitting on his back and that was the pic I wanted to get but he chased the bird away. No worries after a few inches of snow you could not tell the next day and he dropped the other side w no blood a couple hours after the first. The first side he dropped was in a field so it was not broken off or anything like that it just fell off. He is also real old and on his way down but we got both sides off of him (private land - this is Co no gathering sheds on public til may 1). I believe he was give or take a inch about 28.5 outside spread buck.
I also have not seen one bleed this much. Here is a pic of the set.
I also have not seen one bleed this much. Here is a pic of the set.
Bonecollector
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I'm wondering if he did not get it caught in something or get it knocked off a few days too early for there to be this much blood. If you look closely, you can see the crater in his head from where the horn was
Thanks for the video CV. I love these!
Thanks for the video CV. I love these!
Maybe he was in a fight.
Check out this beauty I found on a hike last fall, right along a game trail into a meadow I was scouting for later that season.
The left antler was broken but so was the base. You can see how it healed at an angle. My guess is it was a bad head-butt and a heck of a headache! There's significant bone growth around the base of the antler where it broke - it was the skull that broke, not just the tines on the antler itself.
As you can see the skull is small and the right antler has just the two tines you see. I made him a 1-1/2yr old buck. Since the left antler is clearly broken, my belief is the injury was caused the same year I found the skull. But I found the skull in mid October and there was significant bone growth and healing around the wound, so I don't believe it was a rut fight, I think it happened earlier in the summer. I'm no biologist but that amount of healing would have to have taken at least a few months IMO.
We know bucks fight most in the rut but they can fight any time. Maybe yours was a pre-drop battle. Or maybe he got his antler stuck in something and ripped it off. I know people sometimes make "antler traps" that get bucks caught and force them to drop which IMO is cruel and I'd never do that... but what do I know. But what if yours had a fight or just got stuck in a tree?
Check out this beauty I found on a hike last fall, right along a game trail into a meadow I was scouting for later that season.
The left antler was broken but so was the base. You can see how it healed at an angle. My guess is it was a bad head-butt and a heck of a headache! There's significant bone growth around the base of the antler where it broke - it was the skull that broke, not just the tines on the antler itself.
As you can see the skull is small and the right antler has just the two tines you see. I made him a 1-1/2yr old buck. Since the left antler is clearly broken, my belief is the injury was caused the same year I found the skull. But I found the skull in mid October and there was significant bone growth and healing around the wound, so I don't believe it was a rut fight, I think it happened earlier in the summer. I'm no biologist but that amount of healing would have to have taken at least a few months IMO.
We know bucks fight most in the rut but they can fight any time. Maybe yours was a pre-drop battle. Or maybe he got his antler stuck in something and ripped it off. I know people sometimes make "antler traps" that get bucks caught and force them to drop which IMO is cruel and I'd never do that... but what do I know. But what if yours had a fight or just got stuck in a tree?