Sheep

I took my dogs out for a walk today and ran into a bunch of Bighorn Sheep, west of Anaconda. Nothing big but there where a couple of rams there that thought they where tough...

Locked up

RENO, Nev.(AP) -- It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle themselves.

The saga began Nov. 21 when a rancher in Reese RiverValleyspotted the two elk. By the following day, the animals were gone,and the rancher assumed they had separated.

A week later, according to Nevada Division of Wildlife biologist Tom Donham, the rancher was out looking for some of his cows and saw the elk again. This time, he called the wildlife department and Donham, game warden Brian Eller and Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologist Bryson Code headed out to see what they could do. When they reachedIndian Valley, south of Austin, it was Nov. 29, one week after the elk were first seen.


'When we arrived where the rancher had last seen them, we found them pretty quickly. They were both lying on the ground, and one of them was in a very uncomfortable-looking position with his head directly above the other's head and his nose pointing straight up to the sky,' Donham said. Eller said he wondered if they had survived their ordeal.

'Once we found out they were alive, I was hoping they couldn't move and would stay where they were. That didn't happen. When they ran off, I was hoping they could not go very far. That didn't happen either,' he said.

The elk may have been sparring at the outset, but Donham and Eller say they used teamwork to run for nearly a mile to evade the newcomers. 'It looked like they had been doing it all their lives; serious cooperation if I've ever seen it,' Donham said.

After two unsuccessful att empts, Donham was able to get a tranquilizer dart into one of the elk. With one down, the other could not run, but was also partially tranquilized in order to separate the two.

Eller and Code helped hold the elk down while Donham used a hand saw to remove part of an antler from one of them.

Now this is a BIGGGGGG Moose

The Hennings bucks

Found on November 16 near Henning , MN . Our deer shack is located

about a mile from the swamp where the bucks were found. Here's the

story... the guy that found them had left his stand Sunday morning and was

walking back to their shack when he noticed a tine sticking out of the

swamp grass just off the side of a four wheeler trail. He walked over to

check it out and found the two bucks frozen in the swamp ice with only

about one foot of each deer's side and about 10 inches of the tines above

the ice. After getting help from some hunting partners, they managed to

chop the deer out of the ice and get them loaded onto a flatbed trailer.

The deer were then brought back to the shack and the word started to

spread. The "smaller" of the two was a massive 8 pointer that green

scored an estimated 150+ inches and the "larger" monster was a true swamp

buck with what was thought to be 18 scorable points and a green score of

190+ inches. From what I've heard since these photos were taken, the two

bucks are gaining statewide attention and the larger buck actually has 23

scorable points. It is thought that the bucks had been dead for 2 weeks

before being discovered. Because of this, the capes had begun to

deteriorate and were not capable of producing a mountable cape. However,

new capes have been supplied and the bucks are in the process of being

mounted locked together in battle. The twine on the antlers was to

prevent the bucks from coming unlocked when the heads were removed. Also,

check out the cup on the tip of the main beam on the big guy! Hope you

enjoy the pictures. A truly once in a lifetime opportunity.

Points everywhere

Huge Mule Deer buck from New Mexico

WYOMING BUCKS

Here are some pics of the Wyoming big buck contest. Its probably the biggest and best contest in the state and always brings in some dandy heads.

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Albino Whitetail deer

Montana Monster Muley

This beautifull deer was taken somewhere in the Bitterroot valley in southwester Montana. Inside spread measured 41 inch's. This is a buck hunters dream of getting..