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Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« on: November 07, 2007, 06:21:45 PM »
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2007 Last modified: Friday, November 2, 2007 4:55 PM CDT
Mason County Man’s Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4


NOV. 2, 2007—Rick Hayes has shot a lot of blacktail bucks in the woods near his Mason County home over the past 30 years, but none that ever came with a second one attached to it — until this year.

“They’re both very nice bucks, trophy bucks,” says Hayes, the director of maintenance for the Pioneer School District.

One, a 4x4, has a hole in it from his .44 Winchester; the other, a 3x4, absolutely cannot be untangled from the first’s rack.

“There’s no unhooking them, they’re locked together good,” Hayes says.

The bucks apparently fought each other for several hours until the 3x4 died. Then Hayes shot the 4x4 after work Oct. 25, off his mile-long driveway northeast of Shelton.

He says that after game wardens inspected the animals, they advised him to put a relative’s tag on the other buck.

Hayes’ unusual harvest is spreading like wildfire. He’s been carrying a pocket full of photos to answer folks’ questions, and he says that his son-in-law, while hunting last weekend near Puyallup, was told by another hunter about a pair of Mason County bucks that got hung up — his.

We’ll have more of Hayes’ story and photos in our Nov. 22 issue!

RARE SITUATION: While tangled deer are very rare, our Dec. 4, 2003, issue includes a photo of Greg Parsons’ “two-headed buck,” a northeast Washington 4x4 whitetail that had the head, rack and part of the skin of a 5x4 hanging off of it. One of the 5x4’s points was actually embedded in the 4x4’s skull. Parsons’ hunting partner, Phil Olwell of Bremerton, estimated the 5x4’s head had been hanging on the 4x4s for a couple weeks.

Officer Todd Vandivert, a WDFW game warden in Southeast Washington, says he knows of only one other similar incident. It occurred eight years ago in the Blues.

“In that incident, a hunter saw two bucks fighting, and shot one of them. After killing the deer, he found both bucks were still locked together — one dead and one very much alive,” says Vandivert. “He could not separate the two, and called us to see what he should do. He was advised to have another legally licensed hunter (with a valid tag) shoot the second deer.”

Also, the Aug. 23, 2007, issue of our Rocky Mountain edition features a pair of photos of two antelope bucks whose horns had become locked together.

“It physically took two adults to stretch their skull plates to get them apart,” says bowhunter Dale Larson of Dillon, Mont. He reports the larger of the two had died and that he tagged the other.

— Andy Walgamott

 
This pair of Mason County blacktail bucks locked antlers in late October, leading to the demise of both. “There’s no unhooking them, they’re locked together good,” says hunter Rick Hayes, who shot the 4x4 on the left. The other, a 3x4, had died several hours earlier. (Photo courtesy of Rick Hayes)




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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2007, 06:27:05 PM »
I'm surprised the warden didnt give him a ticket :chuckle:Man thats cool.

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2007, 06:28:03 PM »
The above story comes from Fish & Hunting News.




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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2007, 06:29:37 PM »
I'm surprised the warden didnt give him a ticket :chuckle:Man thats cool.

I am actually surprised that they made him find a tag for the dead buck. If he had shot one while the other was still alive I could understand.




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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2007, 07:13:48 PM »
Thanks for posting it.  I love the gun as much as the deer.

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2007, 07:23:21 PM »
Good little story, thanks for posting.

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2007, 08:46:16 PM »
Thats cool!  It would be tough to mount, which one gets the wall?

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2007, 08:49:17 PM »
Both!
I have seen a couple whitetail mounts (pictures) with both bucks still locked up. I would probably have them mounted to go into a corner with each buck on it's own wall.




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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2007, 07:45:48 AM »
Thing is your not supposed to pick up dead antlered critters in washington, of course he could blame that on the 4 point ;)

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2007, 08:29:25 AM »
 Both really nice bucks. The Bio I used to work with was at one time stationed on Ft. Lewis as the post Bio. He found a 5 and 6 point blacktail that drowned in a pond locked up there, I bleive the post still has the racks somewhere, perhaps in the rec center.

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2007, 09:16:36 AM »
Thats cool!  It would be tough to mount, which one gets the wall?

It's not impossible.  Who said they both had to be on the wall?  It all depends on how they are locked up and mow much movement their is between both racks.  Forms can be modified!  I'd jump at the chance to mount a pair of locked bucks.  If I had a bigger house than that would be something that would go in it.  Two locked bucks mounted on pedastals.

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2007, 10:04:28 AM »
Those are both brutes!  Not sure how I'd get em' mounted.

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Re: Trophy 4x4 Blacktail Comes With Bonus 3x4
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2007, 04:30:49 PM »
 True story, I just heard from a co-worker today who takes the Metro shuttle van from the same neck of the woods -Shelton, as these bucks. Their metro van this AM hit a nice buck right in the keister and he bounced off like a basketball and bounded away, unhurt.

 


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