First drop of the season.

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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I've been watching a few bucks this winter. This side fell off Friday night and I looked and looked for the match Saturday morning - no luck.

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Because he was still wearing it. It fell overnight Saturday and I picked it up first thing Sunday morning.

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This is the guy.


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If I ever win that deer tag ...


Also, very interesting, remember this deer I posted a picture of in Dec?

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Well I hadn't seen him since and was wondering what happened to him, then discovered he was around but had broken off a point.


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Well yesterday AM me and the team were out looking for sheds and stumbled upon this.

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I think its the same deer. That point wasn't chewed off, it has been rubbed post break.

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So if the date on my trail cam is true, that guy died in the last 10 days. No idea what killed him as the dead site was covered in fresh snow yesterday. He looks healthy in that picture of him at the bins, so I don't know if a wolf whacked him or what. Almost all the wolf kills I've seen were out in the open, on ice or a clearing. I found this guy among the pines. If they foud him while still warm, the raven could strip that carcass in a a day no problem, but something besides birds chewed his ribs up and separated the spine. The fact that the nasal bones are not chewed off is a mystery.

Sure looks like the same buck to me. You guys?

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Mike
 
Nice finds! Those are as fresh as they get. Ashame about that buck, it sure looks like the same one too me. He appears darn healthy in the trail cam pic.....will wolves take on a full grown healthy buck like that?
 
Nice sheds! I have really been considering training my lab to go shed hunting. He has a really bad case of cabin fever right now. I need to get him outside soon.

Steve
 
Its a nice side job for a dog to have. They are always searching for stuff anyways so connecting the dots of horn smell = treat is easy.

Mountain lion is doubtful just because if there was one around, someone would have noticed by this late in the winter. There's just no evidence of one being around. Wolves is most likely, although I talked to a friend in MB who apparently is an expert in these things as well as a darn good curler, and she said 40% its a Sasquatch kill. Again, lack of evidence. We'll never know for sure.

Some one here estimated that deer at 24" wide on the hoof - 23" in fact. That's pretty cool.

There's one more pretty good buck I'm hoping to find the sheds off, but the trail cam says as of last night he was still wearing them.
 
[font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]I talked to a friend in MB who apparently is an expert in these things as well as a darn good curler, and she said 40% its a Sasquatch kill.

This makes a lot more sense to me here in New Jersey and is the likely story
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Ya according to my limited research it is normal. Last year the first Mulie to drop in my study area was March 10th and I found a fresh one around April 8th. Our Elk are really late too, end of March and all through April.

Here's a picture from the 9th.

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Mike
 
Nice rack... oops wrong site. If i's not him maybe his off spring or sire. Sure looks like it.
Squatch kill for sure. They've come back in big numbers.

The greatest race on earth is going on up your way right now and it sure looks like it's living up to it
 
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