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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: kennym on April 19, 2021, 04:45:14 PM
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2nd deadhead I’ve found on lease this year...
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Can you tell what killed him, Kenny?
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That sucks...
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Dang - nice one too!
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Not good
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Can't really tell, no damage to ribs like a projectile, so don't know.
The bases are bigger than the antler so maybe old?
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No obvious damage makes it hard to figure out how he died. Maybe as you said old age got him.
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Nothing went to waste, all that is left is bones and the skin on face...
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Hope it isn't blue tongue.
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He was a long ways from any water, they usually go to water with EHD ,
But, there was a couple deer in a little pond last year, maybe he couldn't make it to water... Hmmm...
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I hope not Kenny. Our herd has not recovered from the half dozen rounds of it we've had in Harrison county.
I keep getting offers from real estate places to buy my land. If they weren't offering insultingly low prices I might consider it. Makes for some tough seasons and very few filled tags the last 15 plus years.
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Harrison CO MO? Up by ummm, Ravannah? Maryville?
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Yes. Gilman city area. We're by the Wayne Helton WMA.
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EHD usually gets them right around the time the velvet comes off, those horns don't look like they were newly shed of velvet when he died. Bullet thru the guts doesnt break any ribs or leave sign. Looks like a hunting season non-recovery to me.
Found a couple this year myself.
If a buck ever made it long enough to die of old age it's unlikely hed tip over carrying his horns, more likely hed die late winter/early spring after hes shed out, that's the tough time of year.
R
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Ouch, never like seeing that!
David
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I'd agree with Ryan. If not disease, likely gut shot. :coffee:
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It always sucks when we find them like that. Just like us, they all die, just not all by our hands.
Bisch
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That stinks!
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Hate when that happens.
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That stinks!
It did, for sure. Put him in the pond for the fish to nibble on, will get him out next fall and get papers from MDC to be legal. Got one in the shop much larger from a few years back...
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More bucks die from wounds occurred from fighting during the rut than we may likely expect according to nationally known wildlife biologist. I found two decomposing mature bucks dead this winter on the farm with no apparent visible injuries. One was a 150's class deer. The estimated 5 1/2 yr, over 200# cull, that I harvested this past season had a huge gaping puncture wound in his neck. I would suspect that the placement of that particular wound was not far off the mark from having been lethal.
Several years back, one of the prominent bowhunters in North America and I encountered a fight scene, here on the farm, that resembled a homicide crime scene. The blood spray and droplets and pools completely covered an approximate area from 6 yards wide to 15 yards long. My hunter, who has a deer hunting school, traditional archery school and is whitetail hunting author was calling guys all over the country, including Roger Rothhaar, from the crime scene. I would suspect that one of those deer did not survive.
We may just not know what was the cause of death.
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I'd say bucks could kill others no problem. I ran a tine thru my brand new muck boot while loading one a couple years back. Luckily it was only a couple inches from the top.
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I've seem several large bucks sparring and they ain't playing. Usually, one ends up limping or dragging himself away.