Deadheads - Let's see 'em

[TheTone]

Coues update. No longer a dead head.

Missed that the first time, holy buckets!!

 

[mrcowboy]

Missed that the first time, holy buckets!!

Friend that is bc scorer, scored him. 120 gross. 112 net. Still can't believe his mass.

 

[wyoboypt]

 

[Raisin Bran]

I passed on this Buck in 2023 hoping to see him bigger in 2024. Found him in the upper part of the same drainage dead next to water just this week while looking for him. Either someone wounded him or he got sick late last season. He would have been shootable this year with reasonable antler growth. I am going to clean him up and honor him on my wall.

 

[kansasdad]

Scanning the adjacent field I saw a flash of white.







It was on the other side of the property line that I’m hunting. The landowner called the deadhead land owner and secured permission to retrieve. And then the game warden gave permission to pick up (deadheads require salvage tags in Kansas).

Not a good way to die, I’m guessing.

 

[rjthehunter]

Scanning the adjacent field I saw a flash of white.

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It was on the other side of the property line that I’m hunting. The landowner called the deadhead land owner and secured permission to retrieve. And then the game warden gave permission to pick up (deadheads require salvage tags in Kansas).

Not a good way to die, I’m guessing.


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Yikes. Certainly not a good way to go. Worse for the one that died second though! Probably watched his opponent get chewed on by coyotes.

 

[Brick300wm]

Found an antelope deadhead in a spot I’ve never seen an alive one, and then not a deadhead but a kill in a spot I walked past the morning before.

 

[Hammsolo]

Scanning the adjacent field I saw a flash of white.

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It was on the other side of the property line that I’m hunting. The landowner called the deadhead land owner and secured permission to retrieve. And then the game warden gave permission to pick up (deadheads require salvage tags in Kansas).

Not a good way to die, I’m guessing.



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Those are two dandy bucks. We need more pics. The mass on the buck on the left seems to be next level.

 

[Raisin Bran]

Scanning the adjacent field I saw a flash of white.

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It was on the other side of the property line that I’m hunting. The landowner called the deadhead land owner and secured permission to retrieve. And then the game warden gave permission to pick up (deadheads require salvage tags in Kansas).

Not a good way to die, I’m guessing.


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They look to be equally matched in size? What’s your plan with them?

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Found an antelope deadhead in a spot I’ve never seen an alive one, and then not a deadhead but a kill in a spot I walked past the morning before.

Well, at least the predators don’t care for the ivory’s! Lol crazy find

 

[kansasdad]

They look to be equally matched in size? What’s your plan with them?

It took some twisting to separate them as the half skull buck entered the tall bucks rack from the side. I suppose after getting entangled they both kept trying to face each other head on, making it impossible to get unlocked. The simmer of the full skull buck has started, with the other to follow.

Taking them apart will make the euro prep easier, but I will hook them back together on display.

 

[TheTone]

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It took some twisting to separate them as the half skull buck entered the tall bucks rack from the side. I suppose after getting entangled they both kept trying to face each other head on, making it impossible to get unlocked. The simmer of the full skull buck has started, with the other to follow.

Taking them apart will make the euro prep easier, but I will hook them back together on display.

Good luck getting them back together.

 

[kansasdad]

Good luck getting them back together.

I hope the step by step photos will help! I knew it carried a certain amount of risk, but making the skull prep possible without full immersion.


One thing I’m looking forward to doing is taping out the scores on the individual racks, and adding them together, and then I will be actually able to say that I carried “fill in the blank” inches of antler out that night.

(More or less than 260 inches??)

 

[seeth07]

I hope the step by step photos will help! I knew it carried a certain amount of risk, but making the skull prep possible without full immersion.


One thing I’m looking forward to doing is taping out the scores on the individual racks, and adding them together, and then I will be actually able to say that I carried “full in the blank” inches of antler out that night.

(More or less than 260 inches??)

I'll take the over if we are talking gross

 

[Pucky Freak]

 

[kansasdad]

I hope the step by step photos will help! I knew it carried a certain amount of risk, but making the skull prep possible without full immersion.


One thing I’m looking forward to doing is taping out the scores on the individual racks, and adding them together, and then I will be actually able to say that I carried “fill in the blank” inches of antler out that night.

(More or less than 260 inches??)

Measured tonight by a scoring newb (me!)

Taller one 143 6/8, sideways dude 139 4/8 for a total of 283 2/8

 

[Pucky Freak]

 

[awells36]

Since we have another month or so before hunting gets going, thought it would be cool to start a thread about Deadheads. Given the miles all of us hike in the woods each fall, I am sure we have some cool picks of Deadheads (no sheds, just deadheads).

I'll start.

Not allowed to keep these bighorns skulls in MT, so after taking a bunch of pics, FWP was called. They asked us to bring it to town for them and provide coordinates of where it was discovered. Later scored by FWP at 199 6/8 and now resides in one of their public offices.

How it was found, laying in the sage.
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Cameraman Loren holding it here. HUGE!
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Would love to have it sitting on a pedestal in the Randy Room.

176 6/8 gross whitetail; a buddy mounted for me after I found him dead. East Coast buck

 

[Mallardsx2]

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Did he get his horns caught like and couldn't get his legs under him because he was on that hard surface and then nature took over or what is going on here?