Author Topic: Elk spike shed with broadhead (Read 13680 times)

Pinetar · « **on:** May 13, 2012, 09:23:58 AM »

Anyone recognize their broadhead in this spike Elk antler? lol

Sorry about the cell phone quality

Jason · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2012, 09:43:52 AM »

Not mine..but an extra cool find

Widgeondeke · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2012, 09:49:27 AM »

That is definately a OIL find. Very cool

dreamunelk · « **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2012, 10:01:43 AM »

Makes me wonder what the story is. Did someone take a shot and everything went horribly wrong? Did someone lob an arrow in and hope for the best? I wonder what the individual thought as he watched a spike run away with the arrow in his antler? what were the regulations in the GMU found in? ...................................

Very cool find! One for the wall.

Pinetar · « **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2012, 10:10:12 AM »

GMU 340 - spike bull only unless drawn. I wonder if he was still in velvet so the broadhead lodged in the antler easier? Must have been lookin at the antlers and not the kill zone. lol

mfswallace · « **Reply #5 on:** May 13, 2012, 10:21:00 AM »

Really cool find!!!

ICEMAN · « **Reply #6 on:** May 13, 2012, 05:45:50 PM »

Wow, how cool is that!? OIL find for sure!

CAMPMEAT · « **Reply #7 on:** May 13, 2012, 05:53:04 PM »

Nice. Ya wonder how old it is ?

blindpig · « **Reply #8 on:** May 13, 2012, 06:02:33 PM »

Very, Very neat.

HornHoarder · « **Reply #9 on:** May 13, 2012, 06:08:37 PM »

Thats a cool find. I'd assume it was in velvet, to get that kind of penetration.

D-Rock425 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 13, 2012, 06:31:58 PM »

Gamblin Guy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2012, 09:40:36 PM »

Well Pinetar I dont think it's mine....but here's a little story from my 2002 season in that unit. It's all true...every last painful word I typed up.... Sometimes things just happen no matter how hard we try to avoid "Murphy".....

After scouting all summer and choosing a tree carefully I was sure I was in the right spot for opening morning of elk season. However, when I went in to hang the stand the day before opening I discovered I had miscalculated the height and needed to raise the stand about a foot or so to provide a better view of the area. I did not take my saw in with me as we had prepped the trees earlier and didn’t think I would need it. As I sat in the stand at the higher elevation I knew I had to do some additional pruning in the morning. We would get into the stands almost 2 hours before sunrise and I could do it then.

Sunday morning came with much anticipation. I climbed into my stand with my headlamp and, not wanting to make too much noise cut a few more limbs and thought I would finish up after the morning hunt. As Murphy’s law dictates, the limbs I decided to cut later would come into play. At first light I saw a spike coming down the hill, but he broke to the right and did not present a shot. Shortly after 2 cows and a calf came down the hill on the other side of the canyon, they were only 20 yards away but screened by the only trees in front of me. They walked away never presenting a shot. I knew I was in a good spot, 30 minutes into the season and already I had seen 4 elk. Ten minutes later I heard the familiar noise of hooves on rocks and turned to see another spike crossing the brushed choked creek behind me. His path would put him into the open at a little more than 20 yards.

It all happened quickly, but it is still etched in my brain. I quickly grabbed my bow and turned to face the tree, waiting for him to clear the brush. I looked briefly at his antlers to confirm he was a legal elk with a spike on the right side. The left antler was unique with a ball of antler at the top, but he was legal. As he stepped through the creek I tried to draw my bow but the top limb hit two tree limbs growing out of that side of the tree. I had failed to cut those two, thinking I could get the bow underneath them if necessary, and of course Murphy made sure. I bent my knees and came to full draw, under the limbs. Here I was, 30 minutes into the 2002 season and I could see this spike down already. I picked my spot tight behind the shoulder and put the cross hair on him. At the release I heard a very loud WHACK! I watched in horror as my carefully tuned arrow flew like a wounded duck towards the elk. It was not going towards the spot I had focused so hard on however and promptly struck the elk in the left antler, the big ball of bone at the top, with a second WHACK! I quickly looked for the sound of the first noise and saw the imprint of the edge of my top wheel in the tree limb I thought for sure I was under.

I watched the elk run about 40 yards obviously confused by the additional 425 grains of weight now added to his left antler. As he turned his head, all I could see was the green and yellow fletching waving back and forth. Murphy had struck me again.

and yes that vision is still with me to this day....

huntnnw · « **Reply #12 on:** May 13, 2012, 09:57:13 PM »

I would have to think that elk was in full velvet.. if that antler was solid I just cant see a broadhead penetrating the way it did

sled · « **Reply #13 on:** May 13, 2012, 10:17:11 PM »

Gamblin guy... i think about the same year i talked to a guy in the next camp below us that saw a spike with an arrow in its antler. Good chance it was the same one. Im sure that shot does not happen to often.

:chuckle good story

Pinetar · « **Reply #14 on:** May 13, 2012, 10:59:21 PM »

Gamblin Guy- Great story, it ts amazing what can happen while archery hunting. Everything has to be just right and just about anything can happen.

The way that broadhead is buried in that antler I just got to believe that it went in when he was soft horned but I guess you never know.

BullMagnet76 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 13, 2012, 11:18:05 PM »

Congrats on the great find

bagmNtagm · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2012, 04:59:34 AM »

right on thats a trophy for sure way to go

C-Money · « **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2012, 06:38:41 AM »

Very cool shed! Nice find, congrats!

wlandrum · « **Reply #18 on:** May 14, 2012, 06:59:23 AM »

Great find, that's cool.

daydreamn · « **Reply #19 on:** May 14, 2012, 08:36:39 PM »

Reminds me of a 330" set of elk sheds I picked up a couple years ago. There was a bullet hole just below the g3 on one side.

BOWHUNTER45 · « **Reply #20 on:** May 14, 2012, 08:40:38 PM »

crazy ...must of been done while he was in velvet

Harborhunter · « **Reply #21 on:** May 14, 2012, 09:00:10 PM »

Wow, that's really cool!

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #22 on:** May 14, 2012, 09:04:22 PM »

There was a video on here a few years back of a guy sneeking on a large buck and you see the buck jump up with the arrow stuck in his rack. I wonder how often this happens?

Odell · « **Reply #23 on:** May 15, 2012, 11:13:28 AM »

That is awesome! That would move to #1 in my favorite sheds pile.

Gamblin Guy · « **Reply #24 on:** May 15, 2012, 06:26:58 PM »

Quote from: sled on May 13, 2012, 10:17:11 PM

Gamblin guy... i think about the same year i talked to a guy in the next camp below us that saw a spike with an arrow in its antler. Good chance it was the same one. Im sure that shot does not happen to often. :chuckle good story

Sled, I haven't shared that story with many people until now, too painful.....

All the money I spent on therapy didn't really help.

Dave probably saw that elk, my stand was in the bottom of that big canyon just above the creek.

Pinetar, those of us that have bowhunted for any length of time know that the stars have to align just right to make it happen....or you just have to be lucky which I am not....bowhunt long enough and you'll be amazed at the number of ways there is to screw up a shot on game....oh the pain.....

BULLBLASTER · « **Reply #25 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:26:18 PM »

i could believe that it could happen like that even out of velvet. i wouldnt have thought that before last weekend but i was at the taxidermist paying my bill and he showed me a couse deer rack with a shuttle T buried up to the back of the blades in the main beam. looked pretty crazy and only a small portion of antler was even chipped off.

Arteman · « **Reply #26 on:** May 17, 2012, 12:27:12 AM »

That is amazing, I'm going to start using a metal detector out shed hunting!

bearpaw · « **Reply #27 on:** May 17, 2012, 03:41:41 AM »

That's a pretty unusual find....

Huntboy · « **Reply #28 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:52:32 AM »

Nice find.

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