Locked Horns

[huntinbum]

I just received this email, so I thought I would post the pics for everyone. Here is the message attached to the email:

Guys,


Here is how my day started yesterday (11-29-2007)


Got a call that 2 bull elk were locked up and one was dead the
other still alive.


The bulls were in a field about 15 miles Northeast of Monticello.


When I got there I actually found 2 bulls locked antlers... I
thought this only happened in other areas...


J. and I were going to tranquilize the bull and saw antlers...one
problem..we did not have enough of the drugs to do a good job.
So we walked out there and sawed the one point off of the dead bulls
right antler and then we had to saw the main beam of the left
antler to get the other bull free. The whale tail was over the bulls
eyes, lodged between the eye guards. When we cut it free the bull
stood there for awhile catching its breath with the piece of the
antler still in it's antlers. When it took off the piece of antler came
out...


WOW! this was for sure one of the most memorable days....

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[DallanC]

Very cool!

Thats great you saved a bulls life. It would be neat to be that close to one of those big things breathing and snorting at you while you sawed off the antlers.


-DallanC

 

[huntinbum]

It would be neat to be that close to those bulls, however I wasn't there.

 

[Shummy]

That's so cool!

 

[Zigga]

LAST EDITED ON Dec-06-07 AT 01:52PM (MST)[p]

Cool pics!

 

[fugitive]

Thats pretty cool. Will be an interesting shed for someone next year!!


If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

 

[timberline_shedfreak24]

Awesome pics. I'd like to pick those up!


Timberline

 

[Godsten]

incredible story and pix man, i am so envious of your job

 

[gilamonster8]

Thats crazy right there with them pics

 

[tex270]

Great pics, and story. Thanks for sharing.

 

[BUGLEMN]

THAT SURE IS A GOOD DAY!!!!! GREAT PICS. THANKS

BUGLEMN

 

[arch3614elk]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[mntman]

Awesome story and pics, here is another one similar to it that took place this fall in Northern Minnesota.


The antlers of the two trophy bucks -- a big 10-pointer and a bigger 14-pointer -- were locked in a death grip after a battle that already had claimed the life of the smaller whitetail.

When conservation officer Greg Oldakowski arrived in the woods north of Wadena on Sunday, the live deer was dragging his dead sparring partner out of a small wetland.

The smaller deer likely weighed about 180 pounds and appeared to have been dead a couple of days, Oldakowski said Tuesday. The 14-pointer probably weighed more than 200 pounds, and was still very much alive despite its ordeal.

"He was all full of fire yet," Oldakowski said. "There was no way I was going to get close to him. He was thrashing and throwing that 10-pointer around like a rag doll."

So Oldakowski, 38, an expert marksman, pulled out his .40 caliber pistol.

Not to put the big buck out of its misery -- to try to free it by shooting the tines off the dead deer.

The landowner who discovered the pair and called Oldakowski asked him not to hit the live deer's antlers. After all, the regular deer season opens Saturday.

"I said I'll see what I can do," Oldakowski said.

From about 15 feet, he waited for the deer to stop thrashing, then fired, blasting one tine off the dead deer.

The live buck's response?

"He went kind of crazy," Oldakowski said. "The rack got a little bit loose then; before it was so tight it wouldn't even rattle."

So he aimed for another tine, shot twice, and missed. He prepared to shoot again.

"I was just squeezing the trigger when he moved and I just about shot him," he said. "He thrashed around some more, then I got another clear shot," and fired, breaking off a second tine. "He cracked her loose and away he went."

It was one of the biggest deer he's ever seen. "He was going to die had something not been done. It was certainly worth the try. It was really nice to see him go."

Oldakowski, who has been a conservation officer for six years, was the right officer for the job. He's a member of the DNR's conservation officer pistol team, which, for the fifth consecutive year, won an annual multi-state competition earlier this fall.

"If I didn't have confidence in my handgun skills, I wouldn't have tried it," he said.




Mntman

"Hunting is where you prove yourself"

 

[Bojack]

Thats the kinda elk I wanna hunt. He's just standing there. I bet I could hit that one with my longbow!
Bojack

 

[NMHUNTNUTT1]

WOW IS ABOUT ALL THAT COMES TO MIND...

 

[c2t]

they should have started cutting the
live bulls antlers off first so they
could have kept all 4 beams before
letting them go

 

[tageater]

LAST EDITED ON Dec-18-07 AT 08:58PM (MST)[p]BUMP........now we can see it LOTS. Cant get too much of a good thing can we?

while i'm out bumping things up" i'm thinking i miss Timber's posting"