Here’s a couple of photos of a moose skeleton.  Looks like the cause of death is rather obvious.

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Thanks, Jason!

Here’s the story out of San Leon, Texas.  San Leon is a sleepy little fishing community on the south side of Galveston Bay.  The newspaper there, Sea Breeze, published this story recently.  San Luis pass is on the west side of Galveston Island and is known as a very good fishing spot including flounder gigging.

Local man in night-time attack by wild boars at San Luis Pass:

A.C. Adams was flounder gigging on the back side of San Luis Pass last week with his cousin. His cousin had gone to the truck to drink more beer as it was a slow night of gigging. A.C. was approximately 100 yards from shore when he heard some loud splashing coming towards him. He said it was very unnerving because it was so dark outside of the lanterns’ perimeter. All at once two large vicious hogs in approximately 16 inches of water started attacking him. He immediately lashed out with his flounder gig and started stabbing a hog. As it made a piercing scream in anger and agony, the second hog cut him in the leg with his tusk while biting him. A.C. screamed for help toward the bank at his cousin who never responded. A.C. then turned with the gig stabbing the second hog and the fight was on. One hog knocked him down to his knees and bit him on the forearm. A.C. told me, “At first I could not believe this was happening and then I thought these hogs were going to kill me.” He got back up stabbing at the hogs over and over as they were snapping at him. Finally, one hog went down and lay in the water squealing. That left him one on one with the larger hog.  The big boar would not give up and the fight lasted for two to three more minutes with Mr. Adam’s stabbing the hog twenty-five to thirty more times before it went down. He limped back to the truck and got his pistol. He woke up his drunken cousin who had passed out in the truck and they waded back out with the intention of finishing off both hogs. When they got back out there the hogs were dead. They tied ropes to the hogs and dragged them up to the bank. They got the hogs loaded into the back of the truck and stopped by the hospital where A.C. Adams received twenty-one stitches in his left leg, eight stitches in his right leg, six stitches on his forearm and a tetanus shot. Here is a picture of A.C. Adams with his two hogs that he gigged while floundering in West Bay.

Saturday “somebody” drove from their house to Estes for a Holiday sale.  On my way down the Forest service access road somebody pulled up behind a car with his flashers on and witnessed this most amazing elk migration.  He was sorry he didn’t bring my camera….but luckily one of his neighbors’ daughter did and made this recording. There were only 3 or 4 cars at this place at this time.  He was lucky to  be in one of them!!

As you watch this, you will realize that there is a patch of ice in the middle of the road.

Wisconsin Public Television did a great job of telling the story of a large herd of white, or albino, deer that live in northern Wisconsin.  Take a look.

They were found on November 16 near Henning , MN

Here’s the story… the guy that found them had left his stand Sunday morning and was walking back to the 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 has been 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.

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