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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: wastickslinger on March 30, 2010, 10:36:14 PM

Title: Anyone every seen this???
Post by: wastickslinger on March 30, 2010, 10:36:14 PM: I watched this buck a few times this winter. Never found his sheds. Still looking. :bash:

Anyway, what the heck is up with his hide? I have never seen anything like it before. Sorry I dont have any clearer pictures.
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Post by: seaduckhunter on March 30, 2010, 10:54:18 PM: No but he be a dandy buck this upcoming year.
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Post by: bowhunterforever on March 30, 2010, 11:09:21 PM: No but thats weird! :dunno: Awsome buck too! :drool:
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Post by: littlemac on March 31, 2010, 12:08:40 AM: Almost looks like it runs in the blood veins.

Sure be interesting to know what caused it or if its just one of those freaks of nature.
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Post by: agchawk on March 31, 2010, 12:50:52 AM: I can't recall seeing it before but maybe it's just the thicker winter coat starting to thin out a bit as the weather warms up? It's getting about that time of year (Already is in a lot of areas) when they start shedding that thicker coat.

Just a guess...

Hell of a buck though!!!!
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Post by: rasbo on March 31, 2010, 05:10:31 AM: Im thinking its change in the coats also..Im seeing more hair now where they get gouged by limbs on the trails,good sized tufts of hair
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Post by: Jekemi on April 01, 2010, 08:01:13 AM: perhaps he's a meth addict.
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Post by: Hillbilly270 on April 01, 2010, 02:09:22 PM: probably from all the damn ticks :P
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Post by: bearpaw on April 01, 2010, 02:14:42 PM: never anything like that :dunno:

I think ticks is the best guess mentioned so far, might be rubbing in the brush.
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Post by: Black Plague on April 01, 2010, 02:17:15 PM: I dunno...but it breaks up his pattern pretty good,,,, :chuckle:
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Post by: bonecrusher on April 01, 2010, 08:19:02 PM: oh $H!t if the deer start camoing up were in trouble :yike:
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Post by: BLUEBULLS on April 02, 2010, 11:29:55 AM: stuck in barbwire fence at sometime???

maybe got his butt whooped real bad???
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Post by: grundy53 on April 02, 2010, 11:39:38 AM: maybe its a brindle... lol :P
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 02, 2010, 01:06:01 PM: a bit diffrent, but a toad i would love to take a closer look at him if you could pm me the gps location :IBCOOL: :chuckle:
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Post by: markts on April 02, 2010, 01:37:57 PM: :yeah: I too need directions to this pigs location. I would be glad to take him out so as to not spread any disease. :chuckle: Mark
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Post by: spikehunter on April 02, 2010, 04:16:38 PM: very much an OLD TIMER!!!
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on April 02, 2010, 04:56:49 PM: Looks like scabies, a.k.a. sarcoptic mange, which is caused by a mite. I've seen similar looking elk and bighorn sheep in Wyoming, animals on feedgrounds sometimes get it pretty bad. Very common in Yellowstone elk.
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Post by: BPturkeys on April 02, 2010, 08:36:31 PM: Jesus, first ticks, now mites, what's wrong with you people up there in Washington? :yike: