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Offline rb2506

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wierd elk today
« on: July 20, 2011, 06:30:06 PM »
ok I saw a great big spike today, really it forked at the top but it only had one horn and to top it off it was hard horned. is this last years spike with potential or what?  broke one side off
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Re: wierd elk today
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 08:40:53 PM »
Without pictures I can't help... sorry!

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Re: wierd elk today
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2011, 02:02:58 PM »
wierd to think it would have shed its velvet already...spikes are usually the last to shed...maybe it never dropped em yet...you did say it was broke.  Maybe it has an injury or MAYBE......it is a cow.  For a bull to be hard horned in july...it definatly has something wierd going on!

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Re: wierd elk today
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2011, 02:48:32 PM »
Well, elk are mutating.  Used to be you could shoot one with a 30-06 or even a 30-30, but now days it takes a .338 Lapua magnum or something....

My guess (and just that, wild a** guess) from seeing barren does...barren cow.  They sometimes grow antler, but it is very bizarre looking when they do...
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Re: wierd elk today
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2011, 08:17:13 PM »
mutating elk, thats interesting you would say that.  I got a Spike last year that baffled my mind when i went to gut it out. I say It because it had both male and female parts and no it wasnt a hanford bull it was in GMU 346.  never ran across this before. :dunno:

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Re: wierd elk today
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2011, 09:47:48 PM »
wierd to think it would have shed its velvet already...spikes are usually the last to shed...maybe it never dropped em yet...you did say it was broke.  Maybe it has an injury or MAYBE......it is a cow.  For a bull to be hard horned in july...it definatly has something wierd going on!

only saw the the fork on one side, (it was a good two and a half feet tall)  my guess is that it was broke off but it very well could have just been shed  :dunno:
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