I got this via email the other day. Check out this story.
Whitetails are overpopulating and spreading West. I’m on a hill here and use a spotting scope to check out miles of floodplain, normally underwater ( John Martin resevoir) but now a vast prairie after 7 years of drought. There I can witness the clash as whitetail bucks spread into the area attempting to breed the mulie does and pushing out the bigger mulie bucks. Recently a clan of really big whitetail bucks have been seen feeding, 6 of them with no mulies in sight. rut is over.I got up one morning about a week ago and looking thru the scope saw one buck feeding, none of his buddies in sight. seemed wierd, and as I
looked closer (he was about 1.5 miles away) I could see small animals (young deer??) running around him. Finally I made out one of the small critters, they were Coyotes! Now this was really weird, a deer calmly feeding as coyotes circle around? Deer and coyotes friends??No, I doubt it. finally it hit me, he hadn’t put his head up or even hardly moved the whole time I observed him, HE WAS HUNG UP RACK TO RACK WITH ANOTHER DEER I COULDN’T SEE, probably dead on the ground. The coyotes were getting ready to have a meal!!
So I jumped in the truck and headed down there. After a ten minute drive and a 1/2 mile hike (I forgot it was 20 degrees with a twenty mph wind in my face) I started coming on this incredible scene. However,
while I was still about 100 yards away I saw a well chewed deer hind quarter on the ground. And, sure enough, this big ten point whitetail was locked up with another similar size deer that was HALF EATEN!!!This poor guy had to stand there (and no doubt fend off attacks all night long) while his buddy was devowered!!! it was really a heart wrenching scene.
And in typical human fashion, I decided to intervene. As I got really close, he recognised me and took off, hauling the half deer on his head as best he could. He got running pretty good and then stepped on the carcass and went ass over teakettle, then laid on his back, totally spent. I could have gone over and tickled his big white belly.
After a while, he got back on his feet. I pushed him into some salt cedars. He hooked the halfdeer on a stump AND GOT OFF and ran away with a slight limp (hope he wasn’t hamstrung). Just an incredible wildlife drama.
– Doc A
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Nasty, you can see his insides. These images should be censored!
censored!?!?!? you pussy, thats nature at its finest. if you dont like it click to the next page…
Keep in mind that your talking to a police officer, I would watch what you say.
wow a police officer huh? honestly I doubt it because you would know that he is entitled to free speech and he wasn’t cursing you nor even if he was it would be up to the webmaster to set the rules and to enforce them. In all honesty he is right you see the same thing on National Geographic, Discovery Channel etc. take a pill and cool your bottom
That’s my Dad and he is a Police Officer. He was only kidding around when he said that the images should be censored. He didn’t like calling him names for it.
So what if the man is a police officer. He gave an opinion and so did someone else. Isn’t that what the 1st amendment to the constitution is all about? Freedom of speech!! Maybe you are a
pussy, I don’t know. You can’t do a thing about name calling. Remember as a child the old phrase “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”. Quit trying to throw the badge out there over trivial stuff and go find someone who is breaking an actual law, not just trying to piss you off. Moron! Again 1st amendment to have free speech!Wait a second everyone, I can’t see “his insides”. Looks to me as if they, “his insides”, are gone ! = )
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That’s my cousin and he is a police officer.
you all are gay…
Wow! we are all just looking at abunch of pictures man! How did that turn into a political debate on the constitution???? My goodness, no wonder this contry is sooooo uptight!!!!! If you like it, you like it… If you don’t, you don’t. Damn! Getover yourself…..
And my brother is police officer!!!! So what!! lol!
heck with the first lets keep the second
Oh my goodness, has the United States turned into a country that can’t have respect for it’s fellow citizens.
These pictures have nothing to do with any one of us, it was just stating an unusual occurrence of a natural cycle. If you cannot read and obtain the information that is actually being given, don’t come on to a site and start bad mouthing others, for one reason and one reason only, because when you get on the computer you automatically feel as if you have a back bone.
If any one of you actually cared about what this picture pertains to then you would get over it and move on to the next.
Do something with yourself.
At least the police officer is a knowledgeable person.
It’s going to be finish of mine day, except before finish I am reading this impressive article to improve my experience.