Palouse Tag Holders - Too Bad!

[fly4fish]

I can't be 100% sure how true on the where abouts, but here is the info I recieved in a text message sent to me from my bother (Shawn):

"Shawn, this pic was sent to me yesterday by an installer that works for me.  Road kill by Colfax."

Was this pic really taken by Colfax? I don't know. Can anybody identify those yellow lines or the broken white line?  It looks like an eye guard and g2 were broken off in the collision. Even worse,  the Buck's life was taken and now the meat will be wasted; not to mention where will the rack will end up?

[poohdog]

Wow is all I got to say. 

[ELKBURGER]

Sad to see a such an incredible animal die like that.

[elkoholic1]

 

[THunt]

That does suck.  Anyone would be proud to put their tag on that swamp donkey!!!

[blacktailer]

Well I have a Palouse Tag and that does suck.  What a freaking Monster...

[quadrafire]

Nice buck. That mass is awsome!

[stickbuck]

What a pig of a whitey!

[fly4fish]

I got confirmation from my brother that the story on the location is 100% true.  Now its on the internet, so now you can definitely consider it true.

[countryboy]

Fly4fish, my dad is the one that sent that text to your brother Shawn. The story and location are correct.

[bearhunter99]

that is a shame, what a bruiser!

[fly4fish]

Fly4fish, my dad is the one that sent that text to your brother Shawn. The story and location are correct.

Countryboy,

Thank you for verifying the information.  That is a really neat buck.  Your dad is lucky to have been able to see it, even if it was dead on the road.  I wonder how long those antlers stayed attached to the head?  Tell your Dad thanks for sharing.  Amazing how  quick "a million words" can be spread these days.

[h20hunter]

Wow....awesome buck. To bad about the genetics and getting whacked on the road.

[Kowsrule30]

   What a monster!!!   

[Austrian Hunter]

Now this is a nice WT.  What a shame that he has to go like this!  Whatever hit him, I bet he made some damage with his rack! 

[Pathfinder101]

Wow.  Looks like he was old enough to spread his genes around a bit though.  Tough break for whoever thought they had him all tied up for the late season though...

[whacker1]

Same message i got regarding colfax area

[Seabass]

That buck has bread a few does in his time GARUNTEED!

[countryboy]

There were already 5 cars stopped. I doubt it took long for someone to grab them.

[WSU]

Was this in town?

[Maverick]

  wow!

[zackmioli]

holy crap!!!

[Maverick]

I've heard there's been a big buck everyone called the cemetary buck. Said deal. That buck is amazing. Too bad someone couldnt have put him on the wall.

[jackelope]

I posted this picture on here 2 years ago. I was told by my dad that it was killed in upstate NY near where he lives. Let me see if I can find it.

[jackelope]

Ok, well not 2 years ago.

 http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,90614.msg1151942.html#msg1151942

Definitely not fresh palouse roadkill either way.

[jackelope]

There were already 5 cars stopped. I doubt it took long for someone to grab them.

[bobcat]

I got confirmation from my brother that the story on the location is 100% true.  Now its on the internet, so now you can definitely consider it true.

Not very reliable, is he?   

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Another internet legend dies.

Funny, I wonder what those 5 cars near Colfax stopped for?

[ellensburgpo]

Another internet legend dies.

Funny, I wonder what those 5 cars near Colfax stopped for?

Can't believe that something I read on the Internet turned out to false...I have to go re-asses everything I thought I knew about life now......

[fly4fish]

Well, I guess someone is full of it.  But look on the bright side, there's a big buck near a cemetery somewhere.  I know where I'd heading if I had a Palouse Tag. 

[Selkirk]

It's perfectly clear... the cemetery buck is in Colfax, NY?

[CedarPants]

I had forwarded that pic to a couple guys I know with McGregor down there asking if they had heard anything about it.  One responded "That is one huge whitetail.  Now, where did it REALLY get hit?"

[benhuntin]

I posted this picture on here 2 years ago. I was told by my dad that it was killed in upstate NY near where he lives. Let me see if I can find it.

I thuoght it was on here before

[BLUEBULLS]

Ok, well not 2 years ago.

 http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,90614.msg1151942.html#msg1151942

Definitely not fresh palouse roadkill either way.

that's awesome!

[LDennis24]

This is awesome! My dad was just in Colfax on Tuesday working on a persons internet and said the big cemetery boy was just eating the shrubs in the yard and hanging out with the house cat! He was only about 40 yds away. He's still alive and well! I have a pic of another VERY LARGE whitetail buck on the opposite side of the canyon but he was poached by someone last winter. Good genetics and alot of food in all those backyards... If ya ask me he doesn't need to be shot. LET HIM LIVE!!! LOL!

[Maverick]

 Well anyone with the palouse tag better find that cemetary!!!

[WSU]

I talked to a friend from over there who knew of a big buck that got killed in Colfax.  Maybe not the one pictured, but he knew about it and didn't know about this thread.

[Skillet]

There were already 5 cars stopped. I doubt it took long for someone to grab them.

 
I love the interwebs!   

[hunter12]

not COLFAX WA. I have friends and family over there that work for city and county. no such deer killed over there. they are all hunters i would have heard about this one. 

[Pathfinder101]

not COLFAX WA. I have friends and family over there that work for city and county. no such deer killed over there. they are all hunters i would have heard about this one.

No, look at the link posted by Bluebulls.  Jackalope posted this almost a year ago.  It's a roadkill from upstate New York.

[Jonathan_S]

Phew! Sucks for NY

[huntnnw]

colfax doesnt produce like this EVER..always thin 130 or less bucks

[400out]

  I love it!!!!!!!!! Way to save the day Jack!

[jjhunter]

colfax doesnt produce like this EVER..always thin 130 or less bucks

You might want to check the boone and crockett book.   

[palousemoose]

130" would be very generous for the typical buck with the late Palouse tag.  Although there was a 160" WT buck shot opening morning that I saw and held with my very own hands.  Very few bucks in Whitman county reach full maturity/potential.  Just my 

[jjhunter]

Definitely property dependent, much of the best is off-limits and not hunted much, if at all.   There have been 170" plus whitetails the last several years in Whitman country, but you won't see them on here.

If you draw a tag and aren't local, you won't get to hunt those bucks.  If you are local, you most likely won't get to hunt those bucks....

[fishunt247]

130" would be very generous for the typical buck with the late Palouse tag.

Very much so. Whitman county gets 5 mentions (of the 393 entries) in the typical rifle category in the lastest WA book, the biggest being a 156" buck from 1999. Granted, there are a lot of people who couldn't give a rip about the WA books and don't enter anything. Just a reference point. I have seen pictures of one legitimate giant whitetail that came out of the general rifle down there in the last couple years. Not doubting that there are giants out there, somewhere...jj is probably right, though those properties aren't anywhere near commonplace.