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BrowningRage · Dec 4, 2023

Just a video from Youtube with a GIANT buck..!! Anyone recognize him?

oldmossback · Dec 4, 2023

YEP! He is one of 2 huge bucks out at rocky mountain arsenal game refuge right now. There is a paparazzi of people following them from sun up to sun down daily. I have never seen anything like if.

elkassassin · Dec 4, 2023

Is He Walking In To A CHUM Bucket?

Bluehair · Dec 4, 2023

elkassassin said:
Is He Walking In To A CHUM Bucket?

Yes….basically a park buck. The whole place is a chum bucket of food plots and ponds, surrounded by a TALL fence last time I was there.

Chum Bucket is going to be my band name when I become a rock star.

jims · Dec 4, 2023

Beautiful buck and it’s great to see the CPW allowing nature to take its coarse on the Arsenal without any culling projects like they had when cwd was first discovered!

I believe the Arsenal had CWD back in the 80’s or 90’s. So much for the notion that bucks won’t age and that cwd is always fatal. There wouldn’t be any deer left on that relatively small property if that was the case with cwd prions accumulating in the soil over 40 years! All deer on the Arsenal should be dead if cwd was truly as bad as the cpw says it is!

What I find funny is these deer are confined behind high fences and there never has been any major die offs from cwd. There is and always has been quite a few great bucks on the Arsenal doing just fine 40+ years after cwd struck.

My guess is that this buck has resistant genes to cwd and is passing them along to the herd. What a genius strategy…let old age bucks with great genetics live long prosperous lives and let coyotes and other predators take care of the weak and sick!!!

7 · Dec 4, 2023

That’s an awesome buck!

yoteduster · Dec 4, 2023

He's a dandy

elkassassin · Dec 4, 2023

jims said:
Beautiful buck and it’s great to see the CPW allowing nature to take its coarse on the Arsenal without any culling projects like they had when cwd was first discovered!

I believe the Arsenal had CWD back in the 80’s or 90’s. So much for the notion that bucks won’t age and that cwd is always fatal. There wouldn’t be any deer left on that relatively small property if that was the case with cwd prions accumulating in the soil over 40 years! All deer on the Arsenal should be dead if cwd was truly as bad as the cpw says it is!

What I find funny is these deer are confined behind high fences and there never has been any major die offs from cwd. There is and always has been quite a few great bucks on the Arsenal doing just fine 40+ years after cwd struck.

My guess is that this buck has resistant genes to cwd and is passing them along to the herd. What a genius strategy…let old age bucks with great genetics live long prosperous lives and let coyotes and other predators take care of the weak and sick!!!

Na!

We Have The Game & Fish That Can Kill Them Quicker!

nogoodtags · Dec 5, 2023

jims said:
Beautiful buck and it’s great to see the CPW allowing nature to take its coarse on the Arsenal without any culling projects like they had when cwd was first discovered!

I believe the Arsenal had CWD back in the 80’s or 90’s. So much for the notion that bucks won’t age and that cwd is always fatal. There wouldn’t be any deer left on that relatively small property if that was the case with cwd prions accumulating in the soil over 40 years! All deer on the Arsenal should be dead if cwd was truly as bad as the cpw says it is!

What I find funny is these deer are confined behind high fences and there never has been any major die offs from cwd. There is and always has been quite a few great bucks on the Arsenal doing just fine 40+ years after cwd struck.

My guess is that this buck has resistant genes to cwd and is passing them along to the herd. What a genius strategy…let old age bucks with great genetics live long prosperous lives and let coyotes and other predators take care of the weak and sick!!!

Perfectly stated !

oldmossback · Dec 6, 2023

jims said:
Beautiful buck and it’s great to see the CPW allowing nature to take its coarse on the Arsenal without any culling projects like they had when cwd was first discovered!

I believe the Arsenal had CWD back in the 80’s or 90’s. So much for the notion that bucks won’t age and that cwd is always fatal. There wouldn’t be any deer left on that relatively small property if that was the case with cwd prions accumulating in the soil over 40 years! All deer on the Arsenal should be dead if cwd was truly as bad as the cpw says it is!

What I find funny is these deer are confined behind high fences and there never has been any major die offs from cwd. There is and always has been quite a few great bucks on the Arsenal doing just fine 40+ years after cwd struck.

My guess is that this buck has resistant genes to cwd and is passing them along to the herd. What a genius strategy…let old age bucks with great genetics live long prosperous lives and let coyotes and other predators take care of the weak and sick!!!

Agreed !. The other buck out there is even bigger than this one.

eelgrass · Dec 6, 2023

He needs to be transplanted to Antelope Island for next year's hunt.

blacktailer · Dec 6, 2023

elkassassin said:
Na!

We Have The Game & Fish That Can Kill Them Quicker!

Case in point. Unit 14 in Idaho. I believe they shot 550 deer this past year. Something like 323 whitetail and the rest muleys. Gave every landowner an additional 5 depredation tags that are good through the end of the year. Whitetail, muleys, bucks and does are all on the chopping block. Pretty sad.

Not trying to hijack this thread

hossblur · Dec 6, 2023

eelgrass said:
He needs to be transplanted to Antelope Island for next year's hunt.

He'll fit right in with those semi take deer

Buckfever34 · Dec 13, 2023

Good Lord!

Moe · Dec 13, 2023

Yes, Jim's nailed it

sneakem · Dec 18, 2023

If it were Utah they'd auction off some tags, hire a high priced guide, then tell everyone how tough of a hunt it really was to connect with a giant buck in the name of conservation...