Deadheads - Let's see 'em

[Trekster]

Found 83 that day.

Holy smokes... Impressive. I'll look forward to see your year coming up. Motivation. I'm always open for tips and tactics. I'll do my best to contribute and share as well.

 

[brunswick99]

Cool idea for a topic, I'm enjoying this thread.
I'll add this unique head I found in Mesa County, CO (March 2015).
His left pedicle & eye socket are about 2" off from where they should be, along with the obvious crazy brow tine. Pretty sure he survived some kind of head injury, maybe at a younger age. The skull around the eye socket appears 're-congealed'... Wish I could've seen him alive, one of those faces only a mother can love.
Any theories? Seen anything like this?
Also, I had a hell of a time uploading photos, a PDF seemed like the only way to get 'em up without cutting 80% off, any advice?

 

[kzkammo3]

2016 dead head

Found this bull earlier this year.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Found this guy on a late season elk hunt.

 

[el unit]

Found March 12, 2016. Public land, SW Montana.

 

[el unit]

Finished and ready to hang. April 3, 2016
185 6/8" gross

 

[MT_Fin]

From a couple years ago


The porky was removed at the request of the landowner

 

[el unit]

Red Lodge, MT

 

[Lostinthewoods]

This is my favorite deadhead by far.

I was walking around some creek beds trying to hunt some pigs and this mass caught my eye.




After a quick cleanup I was grinning ear to ear.





He was a beauty of a whitetail.

 

[psinclair]

Wolf skull I found last winter. Took awhile to dig it out of the frozen ground without breaking it. It's in perfect condition. The bottom picture shows it along side of a large male wolf skull I killed in SW Montana a few winters ago.

 

[antlerradar]

Now that is cool. Found one of those a long time ago. It was in bad shape and fell apart when I dug it out.

 

[Keeptrying]

Wow. What a cool thread. I am using the mule deer my wife found as a basis for a kids Christmas present to her. Flowers and stuff. I will post pictures when done.

We really enjoy shed hunting. Have some ideas for metro sheds this spring.

 

[James Riley]

The bottom picture shows it along side of a large male wolf skull I killed in SW Montana a few winters ago.

Interesting how your kill has a more gracile and lengthy distal sweep to the sagittal crest, as well as the relatively narrower/longer nasals. I wonder if that's age-related, normal individual variation, regional distinction/genetic, etc? Cool find and congrats on getting it out without breaking it. Patience can be a good thing. To my shame, I've ruined a few things even when I knew better.

 

[TheJason]

Pat,

What a cool find! Looking at the teeth, that was an old wolf.

 

[Bambistew]

Found a couple hogs last spring. One looked like he died of natural causes, the other looked like a wolf kill. Both are about 390 class bulls. Big old bulls...

 

[SagebrushSlayer]

A couple I found the past two years.

 

[Nameless Range]

I found this buried in the mud of the upper Blackfoot River near where Arrastra Creek drains into it from the north. A mountain bison of yesteryear. The minute I dug it out of the bank it started falling apart. I took it home and sprayed a bunch of lacquer over its entire surface. It stopped falling apart and has a nice sheen to it.

 

[James Riley]

Found a couple hogs last spring. One looked like he died of natural causes, the other looked like a wolf kill. Both are about 390 class bulls. Big old bulls...

Jealous. Can you keep them in AK?

 

[Harrier]

I found this longhorn in a riverbed while doing a four-day drawn hunt for quail at Big Bend Ranch State Park earlier this month. Saw lots of mule deer sheds, too. Unfortunately, removing any such stuff from the park is strictly prohibited.

 

[MTGomer]

We found this ram last year while snowshoeing up to look at a high plateau sheep are known to winter on. I suspect he was injured in the rut and just couldn't sustain the winter. A few leg bones were found at the top of the chute.