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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: goldenhtr on August 20, 2024, 07:04:25 PM

Title: Camera pickup this last weekend
Post by: goldenhtr on August 20, 2024, 07:04:25 PM: Biggest spike I've ever seen and a 7x8. Both huge bodies
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Post by: hunter399 on August 20, 2024, 07:13:02 PM: Any time you got elk on a camera check is a good one.
Cool pics 👍
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Post by: wadu1 on August 20, 2024, 07:15:18 PM: Cool photos are the dates correct?
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Post by: NorseNW on August 20, 2024, 08:03:42 PM: Dear goodness - looks like that spike saw the 7x8 last year and decided to start taking steroids and hitting the weights to beat him up this season!
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Post by: builtfordtough on August 20, 2024, 08:33:28 PM: My brother shot a spike 10 yrs ago and it had definetly regressed from a branched bull. Biggest body we have ever seen. And we have shot big bulls.
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Post by: Dan-o on August 20, 2024, 08:57:56 PM: Stupid question, but is that a spike, or are those really well placed tree branches behind him?

Body on that is way big, and dark like a cow , not an old bull.
If that was a really old regressed bull, wouldn't the pedicles be way bigger?

Feel free to laugh at my expense.
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Post by: spin05 on August 21, 2024, 04:08:13 AM: Thats a nice bull!!!!! Is your temperature off??? or was it really 33 deg
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on August 21, 2024, 05:32:49 AM: Quote from: Dan-o on August 20, 2024, 08:57:56 PM
Stupid question, but is that a spike, or are those really well placed tree branches behind him?

Body on that is way big, and dark like a cow , not an old bull.
If that was a really old regressed bull, wouldn't the pedicles be way bigger?

Feel free to laugh at my expense.

Kind of agree......something looks off where the spikes come out of his head. My thoughts are there is a well positioned spike BEHIND the front elk (not the one you see in pic).........

or the OP is correct and that is a Fatty McFatterson of a spike,
Title: Re: Camera pickup this last weekend
Post by: Dan-o on August 21, 2024, 07:34:59 AM: Quote from: NOCK NOCK on August 21, 2024, 05:32:49 AM
Quote from: Dan-o on August 20, 2024, 08:57:56 PM
Stupid question, but is that a spike, or are those really well placed tree branches behind him?

Body on that is way big, and dark like a cow , not an old bull.
If that was a really old regressed bull, wouldn't the pedicles be way bigger?

Feel free to laugh at my expense.

Kind of agree......something looks off where the spikes come out of his head. My thoughts are there is a well positioned spike BEHIND the front elk (not the one you see in pic).........

or the OP is correct and that is a Fatty McFatterson of a spike,

Geez,
I just blew up the pic.
It does look like it has pedicles..........
I'm going with Fatty McFatterson.....?
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Post by: bearpaw on August 21, 2024, 09:10:43 AM: I think it looks like limbs behind the elk's head. Certainly an unusual photo!
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Post by: nwwanderer on August 21, 2024, 10:53:53 AM: I am betting on hormone issues. A steer, maybe, genetically or some one catching calves. Likely this is it for antlers for 'it'.
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Post by: goldenhtr on August 21, 2024, 02:01:12 PM: Here is the next in line pics. Yes temps and dates are correct.
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on August 21, 2024, 05:33:25 PM: Well those pics ruined my theory. :chuckle:

I don't see the boys in those pics. definitely something out of whack with that one.
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Post by: goldenhtr on August 22, 2024, 04:41:36 PM: Here is another odd one. The spike on the right has shown up several times with hard antlers while the one on the left is just starting to grow new. Several other bulls have just stared as well. Do not all spikes drop their antlers each year? Date and times are correct.
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Post by: The G Spot on August 22, 2024, 05:33:40 PM: Some spikes I’ve seen pack a long time. May 3rd, I would say the spike on the right hasn’t shed yet. One on the left has and is growing this years.