Spotted: 6-Legged Whitetail
Colin | Blogs, FS editors
Just when you think you’ve seen everything…along comes a six-legged deer. That’s right. A story in the Rome News-Tribune, in Georgia, reports that a fawn with six legs was found last weekend after it was attacked by a couple of dogs. X-rays show the deer has two distinct pelvises, and it walks using one leg from each pelvis. The fawn also had two tails, but one was amputated. A veterinarian called the whitetail an “anomaly” and said “it appears it had an identical twin that didn’t form all the way.”
Man, could you imagine spotting this thing from a tree stand? What’s the most bizarre thing you’ve all seen in the outdoors? —Colin
2 coyotes catch and eat a squirrel within 20 yards when I was deer hunting.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pmPorcupines breeding.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:33 pmI spot and stalked a spike bull elk on a food plot during archery season. Got a good quartering away shot at 15 yards and buried an arrow fletching deep in the left side of it rib cage. The elk was suprised by the shot took a feew steps toward the middle of the food plot and just stood there. I figured he was going to exzpire right there in the middle of the food plot. 15 minutes later he was still standing, he kept looking around as if he was searching for an escape but guess he was afraid to move. A few minutes had passed and low and behold another elk come walking out of the woods on the opposite ide of the food plot, another spike, and right behind it was a very imprseeive 6 X 6. Both saw my walking wounded spike just standing there and made a beeline straight for him. The 6 X 6 knew something was not right and approached cautiously. The spike ran right up to my walking wounded and mounted it like he was going to get him a little some-some. He did this not once but twice, three times, until the 6 X 6 got there. The 6 X 6 walked around my walking wounded, saw the arrow stuck in its side, raised his head, left out a snort and ran like hell back the direction he came, his gay spike buddy right behind him. A few minutes later my walking wounded. possibly gay spike elk expired at fields edge.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:22 ama few year’s ago i was bow hunting in central ohio i was in a tree about 25 feet up in a stand, i had been there about an hour in full camo it was early saeson so there was alot of leaves on the tree’s all was quiet then BAM out of no where a guy with a shotgun was walking toward my stand looked like a squirrel hunter he was a big healthy looking, good ole boy, full beard, burley looking fella then he sat down about 15 yards from my stand, in the mean time i’m still quiet and he still don’t know i’m there, then he pull’s 2 squirrel’s out of his pouch look’s at them then he stand’s up and start’s to dance with his squirrel’s then face’s toward each other so they could dance with each other did this for every bit of 5 minutes then turned and left, i was to scared to let him know i was there so i stayed quiet, would every body stayed quiet, or let him know you was there ?
July 26th, 2008 at 2:33 pmhahaha that’s a pretty good story, if it was someone i knew well i’d have stayed quiet but some stranger…i probably would’ve let ‘em know. if i knew them though it might be a different story to bring it up later as a good joke. i don’t have anything to compare to those stories. but one day last year i went out after school to move my ladder stand. i didn’t even bother bringing my bow because i figured it was a little early for deer activity(this proved to be my big mistake). i had sat in it a couple of times in previous mornings but hadn’t seen much within range. i have about a three quarter of a mile walk from the farmyard where i park. i got within 20 yards of my tree and i noticed a deer was watching me from about 35 yards away. i froze where i was but it snorted and busted me, running off. i shrugged it off as a weird coincidence and continued to my stand. i got directly under my stand and realized there was another deer about forty yards away this time, watching me. by that time i realized the stand was in a good spot for an afternoon hunt but after that deer left i climbed up just so i could reposition my bow hanger. so i climb the short ladder (i don’t like heights so it’s only about 12 feet up) and start unscrewing the hook when i see something out of the corner of my eye. at twenty yards and closing there was a four pointer coming my way. not a big deer but still a good animal for me. i was freaking out up there while the deer got closer, i was hanging to the tree half hoping the deer wouldn’t see me. (i was wearing a olive green shirt and blue jeans). this deer got within 4 YARDS of my stand while i was up the tree shaking. he left and i sat down and took a breath, i finished moving my hanger and booked it out of the woods so i wouldn’t ruin my stand anymore by spooking any other deer. the moral of this story: ALWAYS CARRY YOUR BOW
July 30th, 2008 at 5:26 ami was woodchuck hunting with my bow, i saw a woodchuck standing up, and i took a shot and two woodchucks fell over. i didnt see the one standing beahind it.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pmBowhunting for snowshoe hares on Drummond Island with my two uncles and one of them had a dead rabbit tied to his belt and was squated down looking threw some brush. Well my other uncle turned and saw the rabbit from the first uncle’s belt look like it was standing on it’s rear two feet through some thick brush. So he tries a shot and rubber blunts the other guy in the foot! No series damage just a bruise and a good laugh after a period of confusion.
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