Archive for tag: oddities
Apparently This Happens A Lot
December 16, 2008 Campfire StoriesHere’s a follow up on the post from a couple weeks ago, it seems the folks in corn country have had more than one buck jam up their equipment. I thought I had seen something familiar when those latest pics came through and going back through my archives, Doubletougher Aaron Enget of Colorado sent these [...]
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Another “there was this guy” story
December 15, 2008 Campfire StoriesThis is a golden oldie from 2004 about a muzzleloader hunter taking a buck that had an arrow lodged in its skull. Remarkable if true. When I shared this with friends, one came back with a comparable story about a local hunter in Manning, South Carolina. ”When he was cleaning it he found a [...]
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Deer Don’t Combine
December 4, 2008 Campfire StoriesThis one was passed along by Doubletough contributor Bill Bertram with no details, but the photos speak for themselves: apparently our farmer friend here came across this buck bedded in a cornfield while running his combine. Check out the photos after the jump to get a good idea how this came about. Good thing he [...]
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Bulls Ready For Winter
October 17, 2008 SightingsSomeone ought to take these out of the gene pool before the cold weather arrives, because once the snow flies they’re gonna disappear. My first thought is they must be part of someone’s private herd; no way they’ve grown this old on their own in the wild with such a handicap.
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Rude Awakening
October 6, 2008 Campfire StoriesCombing through the Doubletough hunting reports this weekend, I came across this oddity from a ’06 about a bear holed up for the winter in a cornfield. It’s an account of a farmer who’s corn combine fell into a hole out in the middle of his field. When he jumped down to check out what [...]
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His Buddies Call Him Arrowhead
August 8, 2008 Deer, FeaturedThis Doubletough buck was taken by a muzzleloader near Sidney, Nebraska. The story is from 2004 and begins with a local hunter who told his hunting buddy about a deer with an arrow through its head. The next time the two hunted together, the deer appeared well out of shooting distance but clearly enough to [...]
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