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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: lablover on August 17, 2014, 09:06:12 PM

Title: Cool pics on my camera...
Post by: lablover on August 17, 2014, 09:06:12 PM: 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?
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Post by: ghosthunter on August 17, 2014, 09:09:26 PM: Crazy :dunno:
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Post by: ghosthunter on August 17, 2014, 09:11:52 PM: If you look at both sides almost looks like a bullet hole. One side healed over (entry)
The other did not. (exit) :dunno: :dunno: :dunno: :o
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Post by: Fullabull on August 17, 2014, 09:44:42 PM: I think all bulls have that. Not sure if they are glands or what but have seen them many times.
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Post by: TriggerMike on August 17, 2014, 10:08:02 PM: Quote from: Fullabull on August 17, 2014, 09:44:42 PM
I think all bulls have that. Not sure if they are glands or what but have seen them many times.

:yeah:
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Post by: grundy53 on August 17, 2014, 10:23:52 PM: Glands.

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Post by: lablover on August 18, 2014, 08:37:36 AM: All deer and elk have these. I know they are tear ducts/glands. I just haven't seen one open up like this before.
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Post by: 2MANY on August 18, 2014, 09:30:18 AM: Bad salt pucker factor.
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Post by: washelkhunter on August 18, 2014, 09:46:03 AM: Perhaps just a genetic defect or the result of an infection or impaction of some sort.
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Post by: quadrafire on August 18, 2014, 09:51:59 AM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preorbital_gland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preorbital_gland)
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Post by: rittem1 on August 18, 2014, 04:53:15 PM: 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 :chuckle:
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Post by: mkcj on August 18, 2014, 05:13:44 PM: 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 ?
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Post by: Ironhead on August 18, 2014, 05:46:30 PM: Pre orbital gland.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 18, 2014, 05:48:53 PM: Yeah buddy :yike: I love the picture that wildgame inov. takes !! I have one and will be getting another :tup: Dandy Bull :tup:
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Post by: returnofsid on August 19, 2014, 07:23:34 AM: Quote from: rittem1 on August 18, 2014, 04:53:15 PM
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 :chuckle:

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.