Post by: JDHasty on November 30, 2016, 09:06:07 AM
Post by: 7mmfan on November 30, 2016, 09:10:31 AM
Post by: JDHasty on November 30, 2016, 09:31:23 AM
Great buck. Looks like a fairly young buck too. Going to gain some mass in the next couple years.
I'm thinking three and a half years old. That buck is from an area in which they grow some serious girth around the base of the antler by the time they are five and a half years old. He could be a four and half year old buck, but I think he is a stud of a three and half year old.
Post by: Buckewe on November 30, 2016, 09:35:13 AM
Post by: 7mmfan on November 30, 2016, 09:37:18 AM
Great buck. Looks like a fairly young buck too. Going to gain some mass in the next couple years.
I'm thinking three and a half years old. That buck is from an area in which they grow some serious girth around the base of the antler by the time they are five and a half years old. He could be a four and half year old buck, but I think he is a stud of a three and half year old.
The way they taper out quickly makes me agree with you. In 2 more years he'll carry that mass all the way out. Nice photo by the way. Probably the toughest game animal in our country to get a quality picture of.
Post by: SkookumHntr on November 30, 2016, 09:56:29 AM
Post by: Tbob on November 30, 2016, 01:04:30 PM
Post by: Mark251 on November 30, 2016, 07:08:53 PM
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on November 30, 2016, 09:09:59 PM
Post by: Damnimissed on November 30, 2016, 10:16:51 PM
Post by: robodad on November 30, 2016, 10:17:27 PM
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Post by: Duckslayer89 on December 01, 2016, 12:03:16 AM
Almost looks like this guy also from the peninsula but from the story i got it was paralized by a bobcat and was found struggling near a road and found by a hunter, dispatched by a GW and the hunter got to keep it under the roadkill rule !! Super bucks imo !!
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi173.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw55%2Fbb021099%2FDeer%2FIMG_2329_zpsg4jqjtgz.jpg&hash=e6524a5daf5ab7f1b38357b68bafc5cb5006e938) (http://s173.photobucket.com/user/bb021099/media/Deer/IMG_2329_zpsg4jqjtgz.jpg.html)
They could tell it was a bobcat not a cougar? Crazy a bobcat could paralyze a deer but they are strong I'm sure! Cool story wish that would happen to me!
Post by: Lefthook on December 01, 2016, 06:29:29 AM
We were camped right next to a stream and heard loud thrashing in the water. We had no idea what it was and all sorts of scenarios ran through our minds in about 30 seconds.
We grabbed the flashlights and walked over to the bank and saw a little 2 point with a racoon attacking the back of the little bucks neck. We let nature take it's course and the poor buck slowly, shaking his whole body, walked downstream.
Has got to be one of the strangest things I've seen out there. We figured it was an attack of opportunity, the little buck was in the stream and wandered under a branch with at least one racoon on it. There could have been a family of raccoons that attacked him but the buck might have shook all of them but one. Hard to say.
If a racoon will attack a dear then I can see a bobcat, being bigger, faster and more tactful do the same.
Post by: JDHasty on December 01, 2016, 08:34:52 AM
Post by: Duckslayer89 on December 01, 2016, 12:43:45 PM
I know this sounds like bs and we questioned our state of mind when it happened, but it really happened.
We were camped right next to a stream and heard loud thrashing in the water. We had no idea what it was and all sorts of scenarios ran through our minds in about 30 seconds.
We grabbed the flashlights and walked over to the bank and saw a little 2 point with a racoon attacking the back of the little bucks neck. We let nature take it's course and the poor buck slowly, shaking his whole body, walked downstream.
Has got to be one of the strangest things I've seen out there. We figured it was an attack of opportunity, the little buck was in the stream and wandered under a branch with at least one racoon on it. There could have been a family of raccoons that attacked him but the buck might have shook all of them but one. Hard to say.
If a racoon will attack a dear then I can see a bobcat, being bigger, faster and more tactful do the same.
That's awesome so did the raccoon stay on his neck or did he shake him?
Post by: fishnfur on December 01, 2016, 02:42:47 PM
Post by: JDHasty on December 01, 2016, 03:20:56 PM
JD - nice photo. Did you capture that shot or inherit it from some other source?
I got it third hand. It was taken by a News Tribune Photog is what info I got with it. I think it was taken way down by Herron Lake.
Post by: Lefthook on December 01, 2016, 05:52:09 PM
I know this sounds like bs and we questioned our state of mind when it happened, but it really happened.
We were camped right next to a stream and heard loud thrashing in the water. We had no idea what it was and all sorts of scenarios ran through our minds in about 30 seconds.
We grabbed the flashlights and walked over to the bank and saw a little 2 point with a racoon attacking the back of the little bucks neck. We let nature take it's course and the poor buck slowly, shaking his whole body, walked downstream.
Has got to be one of the strangest things I've seen out there. We figured it was an attack of opportunity, the little buck was in the stream and wandered under a branch with at least one racoon on it. There could have been a family of raccoons that attacked him but the buck might have shook all of them but one. Hard to say.
If a racoon will attack a dear then I can see a bobcat, being bigger, faster and more tactful do the same.
That's awesome so did the raccoon stay on his neck or did he shake him?
The last we saw, the racoon was on the back of the bucks neck as he wandered downstream into the dark. We never saw the buck again, I have no idea how it ended. We looked around a little bit but we were elk hunting so we didn't spend to much time on it.
I wonder if that bobcat that paralyzed the buck in the above post went for the back of the neck?
Post by: blacktaill on December 02, 2016, 10:39:30 AM