Forkie Elk

cosmic_cowboy · Jul 5, 2016

LAST EDITED ON Jul-05-16 AT 08:52AM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Jul-05-16 AT 08:45?AM (MST)

Was out over the weekend and found this... Lion Kill ?
Allways tought Elk went from a spike to a 3 or 4 point. But this is a fork Elk.
Jackhttp://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos_2016/113511003020.jpg

Ivar88 · Jul 5, 2016

Interesting find. I've never seen anything like that.

Wailing4Wapiti · Jul 5, 2016

So the question is should he have been a spike but had some really good genetics & feed or should he have been a raghorn and a lion did some selective culling for the herd? I'm guessing the latter.

hank4elk · Jul 5, 2016

Seen spikes with 2 brow tines,4 points with no brow tines,but never seen one like that.
Cool,call it in for receipt from G&F.$5 or so I'd say.

Richard · Jul 5, 2016

those forkies in elk happen every now and then!

Richard · Jul 5, 2016

http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos_2016/18498image.jpeg

stoney · Jul 5, 2016

Just curious on how you determined it a lion kill after that much time, the skull being white and etc? Maybe a wolf?

cosmic_cowboy · Jul 5, 2016

Most of the time you can tell a Lion kill by the crushed brain stem at the base of the skull.Didn't see that on this skull. This Elk carcass was up in a pile of rocks and had been partially covered with sticks.Thats why I think Lion.
Jack