Antler lockups happen when two bucks square off and battle for supremecy.  It occurs quite often and usually results in death for but sometimes just for one.

Check out these photos from the Palmer Course at La Cantera near San Antonio, Texas.   The superintendent had an unusual surprise waiting for him one recent morning.

Likewise, check out all the unusual lockups by clicking the category at left.  There is an unusual post of Elk being locked, of one buck surviving while his opponent is eaten by other critters and even a post showing a rancher dislodging two tangled up bucks by shooting off one of the antlers.  Good stuff.

Here’s a cool story that came to me recently:

“Jake Sweeney first thought he was looking at a mountain goat while hunting up the North Fork last Friday.

But he looked a closer and then a little closer and realized, there’s no goats in this area.

That’s a bear.

It was a bear all right. An albino black bear. Sweeney, a senior at Columbia Falls high school said he watched the bear for several minutes with hunting companions Jeremy Terillion and Elynden Gravelin to make sure it wasn’t a grizzly.

And then he pulled the trigger.

The bear dropped and was dead.

It took him two days, with the help of Terillion and Gravelin to haul the bear out of the woods. The bruin was just about blind, Sweeney said. He noted that the bear never really saw them.

They were hunting a ridge looking out over a clearing where they had seen some other bears when the albino popped out of a clearing about 114 yards away.

Albino animals out in the woods aren’t entirely uncommon, said Jim Williams, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Region One wildlife manager. He said the female bear was about 2 years old, though they won’t know exactly until they get data back on the bear’s tooth.

Albinism is simply a genetic mutation, Williams explained. Black bears normally come in a variety of colors.

Thanks, Hunter.

How did this driver survive???

How fast must she have been going?

Here’s the story:

“The following pictures are of a moose that went through a car’s windshield and out the rear window this month near South River, Ontario.

The VERY lucky woman driver ended up with just a broken wrist and needing a good bath. When you view the pictures you will wonder how the woman managed to survive.”

Here’s a photo send to me recently of a huge wolf.

From the email: “This Wolf was shot recently in Drayton Valley, Alberta….which is near Edmonton about 3 hours North of Calgary. The wolf weighs over 230lbs smashing the previous record of 175lbs.

Apparently a bear hunter witnessed this wolf chase off a big black bear at his baiting station.”

Massive!

Here is a photo of a six legged fawn.

“This fawn was found in my home state of Georiga near Atlanta, it was found after a home owner saw two dogs attacking it.

The fawn has two distinct pelvises and uses one leg from each to walk.

It also had two tails, but one was amputated because of the injuries it suffered during the attack.”

Thanks, Hunter.