It’s definitely not impossible to have a wild buck grow a rack like that . Especially in SE Minnesota. The Lake City/Frontenac area is prime habitat/good soils, as nice as anywhere in the Midwest!Wow, that is an impressive rack. My guess is that it is an elopement from a captive facility. I read where several land owners had pictures of this buck on camera while alive. The county this buck was found was the first in MN to test positive for EHD in a captive facility. Either way, an impressive animal that eluded hunters.
Let me add that it’s like NE Iowa. Rugged bluffs, nice crop fields, creeks, draws.It’s definitely not impossible to have a wild buck grow a rack like that . Especially in SE Minnesota. The Lake City/Frontenac area is prime habitat/good soils, as nice as anywhere in the Midwest!
If you've ever listened to Bronson Strickland present on the effects of genetic manipulation on a wild free range deer herd you'd see that they are very likely wasting their money. But I am all for sketchy rich guys wasting their money... Haha! :)I've heard the latest trick is sketchy rich guys buy does from deer farms and release them into their local herds. I wonder how true that is.
No, they dont all notify the state. I have a 1400 acre high fence area across the road from my place. Not really captive breeding - just folks wanting some exotics to hunt. Locals around here know what axis and elk taste likeWe don’t have captive facilities here in Connecticut , so I’m not familiar with if they lose a deer over the fence or however it escapes, does whoever is in charge of the facility notify the state or does nobody get notified about it? If a breeder buck got loose, I would think the state would get notified . But again, I have no idea.
It depends on the organization. Many of the organizations use the records system as just that, a record of animals and their respective scores with the intent of using their scoring system as an indicator of herd health. If it is used for those purposes then the method of harvest is irrelevant. You would want all animals recorded as they all existed in a particular habitat no matter how they died.I don't understand how a skull can be entered into the records as it was not legally harvested with a weapon. I also don't see any rodent damage on the antlers, very unusual for a skull sitting that long and that clean.
It depends on the organization. Many of the organizations use the records system as just that, a record of animals and their respective scores with the intent of using their scoring system as an indicator of herd health. If it is used for those purposes then the method of harvest is irrelevant. You would want all animals recorded as they all existed in a particular habitat no matter how they died.
It depends on the organization. Many of the organizations use the records system as just that, a record of animals and their respective scores with the intent of using their scoring system as an indicator of herd health. If it is used for those purposes then the method of harvest is irrelevant. You would want all animals recorded as they all existed in a particular habitat no matter how they died.
I would disagree. P&Y, B&C are hunter selective and unrelated to any biological measurement or herd health measurement.