Not that anyone notices...
Posted on 11/26/2022 4:29:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
It’s tough to tell which fact is more surprising: That a red stag deer, not native to North America, was roaming around Randolph County, Alabama. Or that, after countless veteran hunters sought this elusive animal for months, a teenager who never harvested a deer in nearly 50 previous hunts, is the guy who killed it. Or that this specimen — estimated at more than 300 pounds — was so big, part of it dangled from his GMC Z71 pickup truck on the way to the processor, where it was too heavy for one scale and maxed out another. Or that he dropped this bodacious buck from 32 yards away with one shot from a crossbow. “A perfect shot,” said the victorious hunter, Coye Potts, 16, a junior at Handley High School in Roanoke.
Coye’s maternal grandfather, Phillip Taylor, lives about 6 miles from the Georgia border in Rock Mills, Alabama. About a year ago, he periodically saw a deer that “looked like a darn moose” venture out of the woods and into his goat pasture.
One week later, for a few hours before school on two consecutive days, Coye didn’t have a clear shot at all. Taylor encouraged his grandson to be patient. On his third day hunting that week, Nov. 3, Coye took one of his friends, Hudson Vowell, with him. Hudson, a 17-year-old homeschooler, used a rangefinder to spot for Coye.
Coye’s arrow was on target. It pierced the double lung and heart. The deer jumped. “He might have went 5 yards,” Coye said, “but he dropped right there.”
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Everything about your post sucks
Yes everything is Better up north obviously
Indiana and Minnesota and upstate New York you can have the rest of it
—”Sounds like somebody’s pet deer. Or escaped from a zoo.”
My wife worked for a government agency that dealt with such things.
The first thing they do is to call all known locals to check their herds.
An elk sighting in a local park, but none was reported missing so they sent a biologist, who found tracks and scat.
He said it is usually a male looking for love and will follow railroad tracks for hundreds of miles.
We are in northern Illinois and he was a LONG way from any elk range.
It’s an elk.
We just have mule deer and elk here in Colorado. I can’t remember if we have any whitetail deer.
Well, the Southern border IS wide open...
Nice rack!
Oops, sorry, I thought I was commenting on the Alyssa Milano thread.
aggilators? Oh my, beebers aren’t the only danger out there ready to stune people, now there are ferocious aggilators ready to strike at any moment!
People have hunting properties stocked with weird stuff and sometimes they escape.
Saw a huge dead Elk on the interstate one day.
We don’t have Elk here….at least not anymore.
Yep. The deer get smaller as you go further south. When you get down to Florida, they are the size of a large dog.
Mystery mystery a mystery?
Not that anyone notices...
Cool Cool
One of the quirks of nature. Winters are mild and food plentiful so there’s no reason to bulk up for a long and brutal winter. Also the larger the animal the more heat is retained, which is good up north but can cause heat exhaustion in the warmer climes.
Smaller deer tend to successfully reproduce in the south.
Generalities of course.
Ha ha.
Negative.
They’re reintroducing them in lots of the East. Some of the herd that used to wander into my mom’s yard was trapped, and sent to the Great Smoky Mountains.
“Don’t even get me going about snakes. Poisonous snakes,..”
You don’t have timber rattlers where you are? We have them in most of rural PA.
Then there were the sovereign citizens that lived down the road and always kept life interesting, and then there was the summer when an escaped emu kept poking around the woods near our house.
Like Green Acres, I did not have one experience with the utilities, water, trash, internet, etc. that didn't border on the Sam Drucker/Mr. Haney/ Hank Kimbell level of absurd surrealism.
What is that thing, some kind of amphibian?
(She’s pretty cute, though)
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