Posted on 08/20/2023 11:13:54 PM PDT by grundle
Once in a lifetime shot. Park ranger uses a shotgun to separate and save two antler locked bucks.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Very nice, for all of them. :)
I had a pack of wild dogs ... big mean ones ...come through one time .
I jumped up , grabbed my 12 ga and hit the door.
The yard was a flurry of wings and feathers as the chickens squawked and fled.
Dogs were every where ... just tearing wing from bone ...it was getting messy.
I raised my weapon and scanned for a target but no clear shot was open.
Then two of the biggest attackers appeared in the fray.
Right in front of me .. they were locked on to the same bird
...eye to eye growling like the blood crazed fiends they were ....
so I shot the chicken.
Dropped both of them where they stood. Literally.
They lay still on the ground... the chicken still locked in their jaws.
... I have pictures.
Maybe not as cool as the deer video ... but it's my good shot story ...and I'm telling it.
I'm in grouchy old man mode and I'm freepin after dark so............
......... get off my lawn ....
I’ve seen the end results of just that kind of event upon my own chickens, and decimated rabbits. You’re right, it is messy. And there’s a way to call them back so you can eliminate any further issues.
Yes the issue was handled ....
every thing was fine until a 600 ac tract was clear cut down the road last year ...
foxes, owls, raccoon and bigfoots ... over whelmed me ...
I have a few cats, and 1 chicken now.
But I still have about 20 deer that I can whistle in and the squirrels are making a come back now. ...so
things change ...go with the flow
The shooter doesn’t even seem to believe that he did it at first.
Not if you are confident in your shooting ability
I’ve seen several pairs of deer antlers locked together after they died. I believe it is caused, when they fight, by the lighter of the two deer flips over the back of the other causing the antlers to lock together.
Sweet
A bit more than a decade ago in YNP an elk was stuck in a river - it was partially frozen over and the elk had fallen through.
Some nice folks in snowmobiles passed a rope through the elk’s horns and began pulling the elk to safety.
Almost immediately the elk understood these folks were going to save its life and began walking forward (as opposed to fighting the rope).
At least until the park ranger (a woman) showed up told them to stop: “You need to leave the animal alone. It’s nature and you are interfering with nature!”
They said: “No way!”
Then she pulled a firearm, leveled it at the snowmobilers and told them to drop the rope or she’d shoot.
I really lost my liking for Park Rangers that day...she sure as He!! would not have helped these two deer.
It was a good shot!
Years ago, Nebraskaland magazine had a picture of two of them that had gotten locked together. One died and the other had been dragging it around. Since the hindquarter was missing, they assumed coyotes had fed on the dead one while attached.
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