1st dead head

dante322

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• Feb 12, 2012

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found my first evr dead head while puting out trail cams with redcloud this afternoon.

its a shame. had a nice bladed beam on his left side. would have been a nice deer in a couple years.

 

Huckleberry Finn

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• Feb 12, 2012

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Nice find, but yes, a shame. He woulda been a nice buck!

 

RedCloud

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• Feb 12, 2012

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Thought for sure I was going to get run over so he could get that thing lmao.

Great find man.

 

Mike

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• Feb 12, 2012

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RedCloud said:

Thought for sure I was going to get run over so he could get that thing lmao.

Great find man.

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:smiley_clap: Nice find.

 

hickslawns

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• Feb 12, 2012

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Question: Are you sure this wasn't a buck on his way down hill? I guess I just never noticed too many young deer with the palmation on the main beams. Maybe some of the more experienced guys will chime in. Guess it doesn't matter now. Dead either way.

 

CJD3

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• Feb 12, 2012

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Still a Cool find. !

 

"J"

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• Feb 12, 2012

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He's not that young....

 

RedCloud

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• Feb 12, 2012

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hickslawns said:

Question: Are you sure this wasn't a buck on his way down hill? I guess I just never noticed too many young deer with the palmation on the main beams. Maybe some of the more experienced guys will chime in. Guess it doesn't matter now. Dead either way.

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The teeth looked like maybe a 2.5 year old at the most. Still rather pointy and sharp edges on the cusps. I figure it had been laying there dead maybe a month or 2 at the most. Couldn't find anything around as far as an arrow but who knows what he died from. Could have been hit by a car, clean pass through with an arrow, gun shot so who knows. The yote had him eaten pretty good so anything is possible at this point.

I will go back tomorrow and grab the bottom jaw and see what I can find out. Really didn't look very close at it at the time to be 100% positive

 

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dante322

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• Feb 13, 2012

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I will go back tomorrow and grab the bottom jaw and see what I can find out. Really didn't look very close at it at the time to be 100% positive

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I looked pretty close at the teeth on the bottom jaw. They were pretty sharp. not much wear at all.

 

Riverdude

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• Feb 13, 2012

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Great find, did ya get a tag for it?

 

Boone

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• Feb 13, 2012

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Nice job, too bad he didn't make it though. I hardly have any luck finding sheds, much less full skulls.

 

Hoytmania

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• Feb 14, 2012

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Good find dante. Went on a walk today with no luck.

Definitely looks like a young buck. The snout doesn't look to long like a mature buck would have.

 

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• Feb 14, 2012

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Young. The two sets I found last year from young bucks had palmation also.