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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Smokepole on February 23, 2010, 11:11:53 AM

Title: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: Smokepole on February 23, 2010, 11:11:53 AM: Anybody ever seen a deer with a giraffe neck. My partner drug this thing into camp. Wondering if bucks can get a stretched neck from fighting, or if it is some kind of disease? There is a llama ranch near where this buck was harvested. Is it a possible llama/whitetail cross? The meat tasted o.k., but it was a little stringy.

So if anybody knows... tell me what gives?

Much appreciated.
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: Gobble on February 23, 2010, 11:21:46 AM: My guess is the bullet deflected and severed the vertebrae in the neck and the soft tissue around it is stretched out out from pulling/hanging it
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: NWBREW on February 23, 2010, 12:30:01 PM: :yeah: I don't believe a smaller buck like that would do much serious fighting.
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: quadrafire on February 23, 2010, 01:24:43 PM: Quote from: Gobble on February 23, 2010, 11:21:46 AM
My guess is the bullet deflected and severed the vertebrae in the neck and the soft tissue around it is stretched out out from pulling/hanging it
I agree. That shot took out the spine
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: Shootmoore on February 23, 2010, 01:28:40 PM: I agree, you have a broken spine on that buck.

Shootmoore
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: Smokepole on February 23, 2010, 05:50:50 PM: I think he said he drug it a few miles. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: DeerHarvester on February 23, 2010, 08:01:18 PM: Looks to me like your partner drug the *censored* out of that deer with a broken spin :dunno: He must be a big o'l boy!
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: carpsniperg2 on February 23, 2010, 08:17:38 PM: yep the drag or bullet cut the spin and then streched out with the drag.
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: Smokepole on February 23, 2010, 08:44:22 PM: Well...

He said when he shot it, it was reaching for apples like eight or ten feet up in the tree. Pretty sure the neck was stretched like that before the shot.
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Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on February 23, 2010, 08:55:32 PM: It looks like the back is broken for 1 and 2 the neck is really skinny on that deer. Making the neck look even longer. Deer does not look deformed to me and I have seen a LOT of whitetails. It doesn't help that you have it hung up by the hear with over 100lbs pulling down on that broken back and neck.
Title: Re: Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!
Post by: Bearhunter on February 23, 2010, 09:19:51 PM: Looks to me like you partner should use something other than his 50. cal and focus more on shot placement! :chuckle: