Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on October 06, 2008, 11:31:39 AM
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to call me an idiot. I ran into two bulls that had both shed. I didn't want to push them since it was spring so I just sat and watched them and they eventually moved on. I found a couple sheds and was pretty excited. Well I get back and I take a gander at the picture. Is that a shed laying in front of him....did he just shed......I go back there a coupel days later and the antler is GONE. No stick, no log no nothing. Just boot tracks.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2Fidiot.jpg&hash=ae646b6d677a65690717c3988abdef00d3d74f95)
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:chuckle: Sh*t happens. That pretty funny tho
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:chuckle: That's pretty funny. How far away were you when you took the pic?
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so close but yet so far
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50 yards.
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IDIOT!! :chuckle: Just kidding Bone. Looks like it was a nice shed too!!
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this might make you feel better ha ha ha
i just had to ....
:hello:
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Bone-just convince yourself it was a busted up 3 point. :chuckle:
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Just a hunch - but if it makes you feel better, it appears that he's not bloody on the pedicle, in fact, it appears to be growing over. Looks like he shed a week earlier or so. I'd say he didn't drop that antler (assuming it is one) but is likely on a trail that bulls were using when you caught him there on film.
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Or it could be the hair still standing up from just dropping. I have seen that before. It stays up a few inches for a while. You really know he just dropped when you see that.
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Well thats sort of what I figured and why I wasn't really paying attention, or paying closer attention to the bull. I started looking at the picture though and if you have shed hunted much, know that is a very characteristic look. anyhow.......my loss. DANG Usually its an open wound and bright red, though I don't recall what the other side looked like. He probably dropped it a day or two earlier and just happened to be standing over it.
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The spot that looks like a antler is just dirty snow and it melted off by the time you got back up there ;) maybee..... :chuckle:
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Oh good, I feel better now. :)
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Thought that might help ;)
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That's why you should never take pictures ;). That way you would've never known what you missed out on!
