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shot in Northern Wisconsin on the 15th 2009.
It weighed 195lbs dressed and 240lbs live weight.

Great job Angie and many thanks to the Little Sioux Bear Hunting crew.

Watch Angie harvest her Bear...Video
http://www.WisconsinOutdoor.com/angiesbear09.htm


Watch Angie harvest her Bear...Video
http://www.WisconsinOutdoor.com/angiesbear09.htm

This story was given to me by a friend mine who hunts in Minnesota... enjoy

On November 16 near Henning, MN.  Our deer shack is located
about a mile from the swamp where the bucks were found.  Here's the story... the guy that found them had left his stand Sunday morning and was walking back to their shack when he noticed a tine sticking out of the swamp grass just off the side of a four wheeler trail. 

He walked over to check it out and found the two bucks frozen in the swamp ice with only about one foot of each deer's side and about 10 inches of the tines above the ice.

 After getting help from some hunting partners, they managed
 to chop the deer out of the ice and get them loaded onto a flatbed
 trailer.  The deer were then brought back to the shack and the word started to spread.

The "smaller" of the two was a massive 8 pointer
that green scored an estimated 150+ inches and the "larger" monster was a true swamp buck with what was thought to be 18 scorable points and a green score of 190+ inches.

 From what I've heard since these photos were taken, the two bucks are gaining statewide attention and the larger buck actually has 23 scorable points.  It is thought that the bucks had been dead for 2 weeks before being discovered.  Because of this, the capes had begun to
 deteriorate and were not capable of producing a mountable cape.

 However, new capes have been supplied and the bucks are in
 the process of being mounted locked together in battle.  The twine on the antlers was to prevent the bucks from coming unlocked when the heads were removed. 

Also, check out the cup on the tip of the main beam on the big guy!  Hope you enjoy the pictures.  A truly once in a lifetime opportunity.

 30 pt Buck taken in Fond du Lac County

Fond du Lac resident has bagged a 30-point whitetail buck by bow.

Wayne Schumacher shot the deer Sunday night from a tree stand near Rosendale.

Schumacher said the shot covered about 15 yards and the deer ran about 60 or 70 yards before going down.

Schumacher said he's hunted with bow and gun for more than 30 years. He's known people who have seen the buck, but it was hard to believe.

The deer, referred to as "Lucky Buck," has an inside antler spread of 20 1/2 inches. Its field-dressed weight was about 225 pounds. Estimates are that the deer is at least 4 1/2 years old.

Schumacher plans to preserve the memory with a shoulder mount.


Wayne Schumacher registered the possible record deer at Dutch's Trading Post on Main Street in Fond du Lac.

PHILADELPHIA - Thousands of hunters who took to Pennsylvania's woods and fields for the archery antlered deer season opener last Saturday may have unintentionally poisoned the state's deer herd.

Walt Cottrell sounded the alarm loud and clear on Monday morning during the opening session of the two-day quarterly meetings of the Pennsylvania Game Commission at the Holiday Inn near the Sports Complex.

Cottrell, the Wildlife Veterinarian for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, gave a presentation on Chronic Wasting Disease, a disease that affects members of the Cervidae family, which includes deer and elk.

The always fatal disease of the nervous system causes wasting of the body and decreases lifespan in cervids, and has been found as close to the Pennsylvania border as Hampshire County in West Virginia, which is 25 miles away, and Oneida County in New York, which is 80 miles from the border.
read more...
http://www.mcall.com/sports/outdoors/all-ramblings2.70447102oct06,0,6532967.story

The folks that took these pictures live in Larchwood  Iowa 


All photos are compliments of Terry and Sherry Bolding
 
On November 6, a relative, Donna Viereck, called to tell us that she was driving to  Canton ,  South Dakota  and had seen a buck in the distance with his head down. It wasn't moving, and although she honked the car horn repeatedly, he wouldn't raise his head.
 
She grabbed her binoculars and looked at him, and saw that the buck's horns were entangled with those of another one, which was dead. So she called us and asked if we wanted an adventure -- untangling the animals! Well, we went, pronto!!! I took my camera and we walked right up to them.

 
 
 
 

They were tangled in an old fence line just east of a golf course, where some railroad tracks had been. The live buck was on the high side, and the dead buck on the slope. The other buck had been dead for 2 or 3 days, we estimated.

Terry attempted to break a point off the dead buck's rack with his pliers, but couldn't.... He tried turning the dead buck's head but the other one just became more frightened and started backing up.
 
The live buck had the bigger rack - a 5 x 6. The dead buck was bigger bodied and looked to be an older deer. It had more "stickers" on its rack.






The now scared buck eventually got out of the fence, and out in the open. Terry pulled an old post out of the fence line and used it to try and pry the racks loose, but it didn't work.





We finally decided to go to a friend's house in order to borrow his chainsaw, but then we thought something quieter would be better, and so got a hacksaw instead. Terry sawed the main beam on the dead buck and then other one was free!



The buck didn't realize this for probably 30 seconds or so. When he did, he started striking the dead buck in the face repeatedly.




He finally raised his head a little, and then a little more. He stood there with his head held high looking at both of us and we wondered if he were going to try charging us too! Then he turned and ran off rather wobbly. He went a short distance, lay down briefly, and then got up and took off in the direction of the  Big Sioux River  .




Terry and Sherry, thanks for the great story and photos, and for setting the big guy free! Maybe now one of our readers has the chance to meet up with him under better circumstances.
 
-- The End

The  Lord  and The Harley Rider

A  man riding his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, the Lord said, "Because you have tried to be  faithful to me in all ways, I will grant  you one wish."

The biker pulled over and said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I  want."
 
The  Lord said, "Your request  is materialistic, think of the enormous
challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete  and steel it would take! It will nearly exhaust several natural resources. I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind."


The  biker thought about it for a long  time.

Finally, he said, "Lord, I wish that I and all men could understand women; I want to know how she  feels inside, what she's thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she says nothing's wrong, and how I can make a woman truly happy."

The Lord replied, "You want two lanes or four on that bridge?"   

An Exercise for People over "50"
   
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty ofroom at each side. With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend yourarms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as youcan. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.
 

Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit

longer.

After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks. Then try 50-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.)

 
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the

Sacks and begin again.

WIFE FROM HELL
   
 
A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says, ' I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir.'

The driver says, 'Gee, officer, I had it on cruise control at 60; perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating. '

Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: 'Now don't be silly, dear--you know that this car doesn't have cruise control.'

As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, 'Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once?'

The wife smiles demurely and says, 'You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did.'

As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, 'Woman, can't you keep your mouth shut?'

The officer frowns and says, 'And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine.'

The driver says, 'Yeah, well, you see, officer, I had it on, but I took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket.'

The wife says, 'Now, dear, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you're driving.'

And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket, the driver turns to his wife and barks, 'WHY DON'T YOU PLEASE SHUT UP??'

The officer looks over at the woman and asks, 'Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?'

I love this part......... ... :





'Only when he's been drinking.'