Cool pics on my camera...

[lablover]

So I put up my camera back in July and got 350+ photos of 3 different bulls. The one that I'm posting here is a decent bull, weak on the top end, but not bad for where he's at. Look at the tear duct in the bugling picture, I have never seen that in any photo of an elk before. Has anyone ever seen this?

[ghosthunter]

Crazy

[ghosthunter]

If you look at both sides almost looks like a bullet hole. One side healed over (entry)
The other did not. (exit)

[Fullabull]

I think all bulls have that. Not sure if they are glands or what but have seen them many times.

[TriggerMike]

I think all bulls have that. Not sure if they are glands or what but have seen them many times.

 

[grundy53]

Glands.

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[lablover]

All deer and elk have these. I know they are tear ducts/glands. I just haven't seen one open up like this before.

[2MANY]

Bad salt pucker factor.

[washelkhunter]

Perhaps just a genetic defect or the result of an infection or impaction of some sort.

[quadrafire]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preorbital_gland

[rittem1]

That's really weird since bulls don't bugle in July...looks like he just had a piece of food stuck in his throat and needs a 180 gr heimlich maneuver 

[mkcj]

Tear duct gland like said, Even deer have these and when the deer are at the feeder at our cabin it's pretty close to the cabin window, when a deer (even a doe) is eating and another smaller deer walks up sometimes the bigger will run it off and when they do that gland will open up and easy to see, I have wondered if it lets a scent out as a dominance type warning ?

[Ironhead]

Pre orbital gland.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Yeah buddy  I love the picture that wildgame inov. takes !! I have one and will be getting another  Dandy Bull 

[returnofsid]

That's really weird since bulls don't bugle in July...looks like he just had a piece of food stuck in his throat and needs a 180 gr heimlich maneuver 

Tell that to all the elk that many hunters have heard bugling, in July, as well as just about every other month of the year.