Unique Markings/Features on the Animals you've taken??

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Could be another cool thread.

I've taken a few animals over the years that have some cool unique markings/features. Will have to take some pics in daylight to show them best.

Please post up some pics of the unique features of the critters that you've taken.

SSS

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Ok. just loaded up a couple new pics.


This black bear I shot back in 2007 had some serious scars and a ripped tongue.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Battle_Scarred_Bruin_001.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Battle_Scarred_Bruin_005.jpg


And a rocky I got back in 2001 had a white 'V' on the back of his neck. Has faded a bit over the years.
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16649434_417561488580405_8617296380666951226_n.jpg ?oh=a8ad4584abc4a1a9112671617b80301b&oe=593F786A

And my latest stone had a cool black spot on his neck that made him stand out.
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16807335_417561491913738_954495971463887002_n.jpg? oh=9328a2c72c079674de1fa136f23dc6a3&oe=593D9B69

[kennyj]

This guy had a torn nose. I saw him 3 years in a row. I couldn't find a bigger one so I shot him on the second last day of the season in '07. This buck ended a long BT dry spell for me.

https://s19.postimg.org/wy790l0hf/Deer_caribou_etc_081.jpg

[Bonz]

find alot of weird stuff doing skull work

my first bear, was small guy, looks like head was completly crushed at one point in its life, and partialy healed up. i thought it was bullet shrapnel damage at first when i was cleaning it, but then i see the healing bone areas to, fight for its life as a young cub?

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/8287_new.jpg

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/8288_new.jpg

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/8290new.jpg

[Bonz]

and another on my biggest, just made bc book size. was a nice bear, but seemed thin. now i see why. snapped its jaw right in 2 on the 1 side. id assume made it hard to eat proper for quite a while. making him thinner than others his size.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/6394new.jpg

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/6403new.jpg

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/6404new.jpg

[j270wsm]

My sons bear

Photobucket isn't working.

Anyone know why the links to my pics aren't working? This is how they look.

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[Bonz]

to much code there, you using the copy image to the right on photobucket page?
the very bottom tab says img, thats the one to use. then just rt click to paste to here

[j270wsm]

Tried using every code and the only one that worked was the direct link and it would allow access to all my albums. I'm posting from my phone so I think it could be part of my issue.

[Bonz]

oh, ya the cell posting is a tad diff. i gave up on it from a cell, to much a pain in the arse. and hated their app, always crashed on me, and days to upload images

[ryanb]

Use imgur, works much better than photobucket.

[Fisher-Dude]

Tri-beam mule deer with some funky brow tines that I got about 15 years ago.


http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e70/Fisher-Dude/HPIM1226.jpg

[Kopper]

Figured there's gotta be more takers on this thread. Cool mulie FD, and now that I'm done drooling over that ram....Again.

My first deer back in 07, big alfalfa fed 4x4 mulie. Not a typical dichotomous rack like most mulies and sporting 3 3/4in brows.
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y317/KOPPER22/P2200005_zpssm9ek5fj.jpg (http://s1025.photobucket.com/user/KOPPER22/media/P2200005_zpssm9ek5fj.jpg.html)

Posted before in other threads, this old goat from 2015 has got an exaggerated roman nose. Don't see it too often in goats.
http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y317/KOPPER22/P2200002_zpsbkwfwetp.jpg (http://s1025.photobucket.com/user/KOPPER22/media/P2200002_zpsbkwfwetp.jpg.html)

[two-feet]

Love those healed up bear skulls, wild animals are just so dang tough.

[brian]

I did not "take it", but I saw a piebald blacktail buck once. It confused the hell out of me! I was scratching my head after the encounter and wondering if what I just saw was real or a figment of my imagination augmented by a trick of the light. "Did I really see that?" Turns out later that night someone asked a question here about odd coloured deer and there was a picture link just like what I saw, a piebald deer. Coolest animal I have seen out there.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

A friend shot this nice whitey a bunch of years ago. Has a round bony protrusion on the bridge of its nose. Wish I had a pic of the euro.
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16681480_418107171859170_7294228279368297923_n.jpg ?oh=9bf4e81487def8a4dd69c2c27fd8adc5&oe=58FD890B

[ryanb]

The stone I shot back in 2011 had a real unique blonde back. Not light grey but almost entirely yellow blonde. I have viewed hundreds, maybe thousands of stones since and have yet to see another with the same colouration.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/rbumali/2.jpg

[Tifferly]

Fun thread! When I was skinning and prepping the skull from my buck for the Euro mount, I felt some weird bony protrusions near the left antler. Turns out this guy had some SERIOUS pedicle damage at some point in his life. Before bleaching, you can see the crazy healed skull, and how far forward the subsequent antler ended up growing.

http://i.imgur.com/WT4Id4R.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sZGBMXF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/C2o6zj5.jpg

[sawmill]

No pics but I have shot a moose and a whitetail that had one antler leaning way over. After skinning the head I found that the antler base and a big piece of skull were busted loose and floating. When I pulled the antler back you could see the brain. Hit by a truck?

[325]

The elk I shot a couple of years ago had a partially healed hole in the roof of its mouth, which I suspect t came to be from the tine of a rival bull.

[Fishgutz]

I shot a spike moose in 2013 and found a solid lead .243 bullet mushroomed up against one of his neck vertebrae incased in scare tissue.

[IronNoggin]

My brother shot a good Saskatchewan Whitetail many years ago. Upon butchering it, we discovered an older four blade Wasp Broadhead buried firmly in it's spine, and quite calcified over. Well before the days any of us took pictures although I believe he still has the bone with embedded broadhead on display.

This one I did have a camera for:

http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Skull-Work/Hitler_Buck_1.jpg

Cheers,
Nog

[albravo2]

Very cool thread.

I think it is amazing how animals can heal from brutal injuries.

Closest I've come to anything noteworthy was a bullet hole just behind the shoulder of my spike buck this October.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Keep them coming everybody!!

Here's the feet of an 'elf moose' that my Dad shot back in the early 90's in the North Thompson.
One rotted but he kept the other three with the hopes of making a unique coffee table.

https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16831884_418986518437902_3014848924693247631_n.jpg ?oh=24daee641f0c9d995b107729e5bcc3dd&oe=593CE20D

[horshur]

Keep them coming everybody!!

Here's the feet of an 'elf moose' that my Dad shot back in the early 90's in the North Thompson.
One rotted but he kept the other three with the hopes of making a unique coffee table.

https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16831884_418986518437902_3014848924693247631_n.jpg ?oh=24daee641f0c9d995b107729e5bcc3dd&oe=593CE20D
that is cool. It appears the moose has laminitis. I have seen pics if white tails with it on the rich feed of the Midwest. Apparently some of the cadomin rams founder on the high test feed as well. I wonder what the moose got into? Thanks for posting

[RiverOtter]

That's super weird for all 4 hooves to have the same defect. Cool pic.

Not sure if I have a pic anywhere, but I trapped a RiverOtter about 15 years ago that had a white patch on his neck. I also have a bear skull with a semi fused jaw hinge, guessing it was broke as a cub and healed weird, but who knows.

Was at an older gentlemans house a couple months ago and noticed a weird European MD mount on his shop wall. When I asked about it, he said he shot that buck twice, 12 months to the day apart. He took a head shot at a buck and dropped it on the spot. When he hiked up to where it should have been laying, there was a small amount of blood and some hair, but no deer. After extensive searching, he gave up, thinking he had grazed it. Fast forward 1 year, same area and he sees a nice buck so he shoots it. Walks up to it and it has a slightly deformed antler and an eye that is clouded over. Caping the buck out later, he solves his own mystery and finds a healed orbital and deformed antler socket from a bullet wound. Tough critter would be an understatement. Shooting the same buck twice, priceless.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

that is cool. It appears the moose has laminitis. I have seen pics if white tails with it on the rich feed of the Midwest. Apparently some of the cadomin rams founder on the high test feed as well. I wonder what the moose got into? Thanks for posting

Thanks for that info Andy.
I had heard that other ungulates can get the same condition and also that it was diet related but never knew what it was called.

SSS

[quadrakid]

I shot a moose in the yukon that had a tattoo of keith richards on his back.Just can,t find the pics

[M.Dean]

I seen a pic years ago of a moose with the same hoofs as that one? I heard that a rancher had found a calf moose whos mother had been killed so he took it home and it lived in his barn over the winter. I guess with the calf walking on straw all winter it's toe nails didn't wear down like with a normal moose, and once they reached a certain point, they just kept growing like in the pic???

[guest]

Keep them coming everybody!!

Here's the feet of an 'elf moose' that my Dad shot back in the early 90's in the North Thompson.
One rotted but he kept the other three with the hopes of making a unique coffee table.

https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16831884_418986518437902_3014848924693247631_n.jpg ?oh=24daee641f0c9d995b107729e5bcc3dd&oe=593CE20D

shot moose myself with hooves love this, my biggest bull of 52, inches near Pink Mountain. Took and showed a biologist this and he claimed it was from spending most his time in the Muskkeg, and not firm solid ground.

Humph, I just thought he hadn't had a pedicure ...... Good share SSS

[Backwoods]

Great Thread Steve!

[northernbc]

really great stories it is amazing what the animals go thru.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Here's one that Ourea posted last year.

From Idaho. They don't get much more unique than this.

https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17021923_420806318255922_7608694678137399198_n.jpg ?oh=d85ed9389d403d3ab22c11262b7ac24a&oe=5933A38B

[northernbc]

that's unreal any story on that

[Stone Sheep Steve]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?124480-Cougar-With-Teeth-Growing-From-It-s-Forehead

[bigneily]

This is a crazy bull my son shot back in 2012 , It must have had its skull broken prior to fighting or something . The pedicle grows out of its forehead almost , Looks real wonky with the hide off just the skull plate .http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x404/bigneily/014_3.jpg (http://s1180.photobucket.com/user/bigneily/media/014_3.jpg.html)

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Thanks for sharing BN!

Although I never took this buck, he did have a pretty unusual antler configuration.

Wonder if he ever made full curl??

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Tcam_pics_015.jpg

[RiverOtter]

You know for sure that was a buck, SSS?
Reason I ask is, there used to be a resident doe near my parents place with a horn like that. I say horn because she carried it year round.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

You know for sure that was a buck, SSS?
Reason I ask is, there used to be a resident doe near my parents place with a horn like that. I say horn because she carried it year round.

Good point RO. No idea if it was a buck or antlered doe. That was the only year I had pics of 'it'.

[B.C.Boy(100%)]

The moose with the curved hooves.

I took a Blacktail in 15, it had long curved hooves as well, the area he was taken from was alpine marshy meadow, even in summer this place is wet.

[GoatGuy]

Does a 3 legged 3 toed bear count?

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Does a 3 legged 3 toed bear count?

He might be able to count but probably not as high as a bear with all four legs and toes.

[guest]

He might be able to count but probably not as high as a bear with all four legs and toes.
That's funny there ....... Only to 13 then :razz:

[p0stij]

Saw a mule buck this year with a thick gnarly stub of an antler growing right out of the side of his face, cheek bone area. I wanted to take him real bad but he ended up on the adjacent property where I didn't have permission before I could get a shot. Sure wish I could show him off.

[bcsteve]

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg186/bcsteve/CIMG3966_zpsdpwzvtbu.jpg (http://s248.photobucket.com/user/bcsteve/media/CIMG3966_zpsdpwzvtbu.jpg.html)

My bull moose from 2016.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Cool! He reminds me of the bull that was shooting bullets out of his horns at Buggs Bunny.

[Deer_Slayer]

Once saw a whitetail deer near Brisco BC with huge tumors all over its body, head and neck. never got a picture but it was one bizarre looking deer. Thought of dispatching it but it took off...maybe I woulda been in trouble if I had killed it, but it looked awful.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Any more unique featured critters taken this past season?

[pin_head]

Not this past season, but two years ago I shot a 2 point mule deer on October 25 that was still in full velvet still. I thought it rather odd and it made for a neat euro mount.

Brad

[Nimrod]

My brother shot a good Saskatchewan Whitetail many years ago. Upon butchering it, we discovered an older four blade Wasp Broadhead buried firmly in it's spine, and quite calcified over. Well before the days any of us took pictures although I believe he still has the bone with embedded broadhead on display.

This one I did have a camera for:



Cheers,
Nog

Seen something very similar to this, I'm a butcher and over the years have seen some wild injuries. As a hunter I'd follow scare tissue through the body to image what caused the damage.
routine to find 22 lead in moose, have seen a LEH calf elk with a fresh wound path with very little blood shot damage but following it through one hind leg then the other could see hair in the channel then on the aother side found a perfectly mushroomed 30cal , the calf didn't die from this wound , it was from earlier in the season from what I figured was most likely a pass though on a regular season bull.
Once on a big mule deer had my knife hit metal making a cut down the loin, ended up being a wasp broadhead with a 6" section of aluminum arrow attached, following the wound it looked like a hail Marry from behind, the arrow entered the loin above the kidneys and raked across the spine stopping between the shoulder blades. Was an old well headed wound, that was the first OMG moments where I realized how tough these animals are.
Last Year my hunting buddy shot a mature Whitetail with half a tail and a fractured back leg, the upper bone was completely severed, the hoof was off to the side and the deer has been walking on the section of skin and bone from the upper leg, was a big stump of scare tissue. Again this was a old injury and he was making out just fine, figured it was hit by a vehicle.

[buckshot]

My buddy shot a buck last year that had this funny looking plastic box thingy on a belt tied around his neck. Weird or what?

[Big Lew]

A great many years ago when there was an open season for does, I shot an old dry one
in a series of very steep canyons below a large ranch. It had badly damaged a front leg
a long time before I shot it...probably more than a year or more. From the knee down was
only hide containing the leg bones all broken into many pieces. There was absolutely no
sign of meat tissues. Throughout those steep canyons were deer trails one would think
only sheep and goats could travel. How that doe could survive for so long, including through
bitterly cold winters, especially considering there were both coyotes and cougar prowling the
area is baffling really. Of course when I saw that injury I carefully examined all her organs etc
for any sign of abnormality's but all was well, and although she wasn't fat, she was in good shape.

[.308SLAYER]

Not this past season, but two years ago I shot a 2 point mule deer on October 25 that was still in full velvet still. I thought it rather odd and it made for a neat euro mount.

Brad

A friend took a large 4 by 4 my mule deer it was also end of October still full velvet upon getting upto the downed animal and starting to process it had tits and no male genitalia...

[358mag]

A friend took a large 4 by 4 my mule deer it was also end of October still full velvet upon getting upto the downed animal and starting to process it had tits and no male genitalia...

Justin Trudeau would be proud

[butthead]

Justin Trudeau would be proud

now thats funny

[greasysidedown]

Our hunting party killed a big bull moose a few years ago with 3 healed over broken ribs. The heal spots where the size of a big fist.

We think he was a fighter not a lover.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Never took this animal either but it seemed odd. This pic was taken on May 2 while glassing for bears. No velvet, just a hard-horned 4pt muley.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/May_20_2009_005.jpg

[rudysteelhead]

Great thread... no pictures to show but a short list of unique animals that i have seen over the years;

1. 4pt WT buck with no tail (missing at the rear rump)
2. 3x4 Elk (years ago) with a .30 cal bullet grown over in its skull between the pedicles
3. A unicorn WT buck with a 4" spike growing dead center of skull
4. BT buck with one nut

[walks with deer]

mule deer buck with a 5th leg growing out of the dew claw.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Meet Mr Bent Face.

Nose has a pretty good bend to the left and has molars that are extra long so they probably weren't matched up with the lower jaw.

He has shitty horn growth in his second and third years so the injury may have happened then. Who knows for sure??

https://i.imgur.com/OxBUsgl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nAWWlRV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dxIZCa7.jpg

[wideopenthrottle]

He might be able to count but probably not as high as a bear with all four legs and toes.

heheh...now that thar was funny

[RyoTHC]

One of the more interesting threads on here, wish I could contribute.

Maybe this year !

J

Keep them coming folks .. good motivation for opening day!

[Islandeer]

I shot a big whitey buck in the The East Koots that had an actual mane.
Never seen or heard of this before.