LAST EDITED ON Nov-08-13 AT 10:20PM (MST)[p]I love spotting and picking up sheds during hunting season and this find is one of my all time favorites, even though it isn't your typical shed find. While I was looking for bulls for a friend, I decided to look over some water holes in some thick pinyon juniper stands and check out any activity during the afternoon. I came upon an incredible find. The evidence of 2, 330-340 bulls tearing the crap out of each other. Both left the scene with breaks on their main beams, one more severe then the other. How cool it would of been to witness this and I can only imagine the thunder sound that echoed when these beams had broken. I apologize for the photo quality, I take my DSLR with me all the time except this little venture. All I had was my iPhone and I was 1200 yards from the truck. Check it out:
I was following an elk trail and came upon the battle scene
Here it is looking from the east
This bull received most of the damage, his big chunk had broken at the 3rd and there's his 2nd laying next to other pieces ( I assembled them later)
This is from bull #2, there wasn't anything else left from this guy besides his back end:
Pieces from bull #1:
Backend from bull #1:
This is the most fun I've had with a puzzle, started piecing everything together:
Here you can see the front bull just had his browtine on his right side on his head still. Both bulls had broken their right antler:
Everything fit back together pretty well!
Fairly evenly matched bulls:
Of course there was some sun wear but with how brown and fresh the breaks looked, hardly any critter nibbles on the tines and a little bit of blood stain it had to of happened this past September! I could be wrong though. Stay tuned, I hope to post the actual sheds this upcoming spring, I think that would be awesome to find those. WIth these bulls broken like this, they may not be that appealing to knock down during the upcoming hunts.
Thanks for reading!
I was following an elk trail and came upon the battle scene
Here it is looking from the east
This bull received most of the damage, his big chunk had broken at the 3rd and there's his 2nd laying next to other pieces ( I assembled them later)
This is from bull #2, there wasn't anything else left from this guy besides his back end:
Pieces from bull #1:
Backend from bull #1:
This is the most fun I've had with a puzzle, started piecing everything together:
Here you can see the front bull just had his browtine on his right side on his head still. Both bulls had broken their right antler:
Everything fit back together pretty well!
Fairly evenly matched bulls:
Of course there was some sun wear but with how brown and fresh the breaks looked, hardly any critter nibbles on the tines and a little bit of blood stain it had to of happened this past September! I could be wrong though. Stay tuned, I hope to post the actual sheds this upcoming spring, I think that would be awesome to find those. WIth these bulls broken like this, they may not be that appealing to knock down during the upcoming hunts.
Thanks for reading!
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