From a chap that manages approximately 100,000 acres of lease properties for high net worth individuals who have camps and facilities at KR. A year old but still impressive

Seems like the only good snake is a dead snake.  I don’t agree with killing them “just ‘cuz”.  I’m a kill it to eat it kind of guy.  However, I don’t like them anymore than the next guy and hope I never have a surprise encounter with one of the dastardly buggers.  Frightening.

This came to me via email with this back story:

“Some guys on a deer lease found these in an old storm shelter; they went in with flashlights, pitch forks, axe handle and a “T”post . . . there were more that they couldn’t get to.

My weapon of choice would have been five gallons of gas and a match.”

A whole mess of rattlesnakes

Here’s a series of photos of a piebald trophy whitetail buck.

Here’s the back story:

“We did actually catch this buck on trail cams a few times over the last couple months. I’ve added one of those to the zip file I’m sending you from the night before I took him. The trail camera is about 500 yards south of the box stand I was sitting in and he came out of a field about 500 yards north of my stand. I noticed something in the field in the early dawn light but couldn’t make out what it was. Then it moved into a patch of hard woods that are about 200 yards from my stand just as the sun started to creep up.

As soon as the light hit him I saw the white all along the belly through my binaculars and knew it had to be him. He worked through the patch of woods as the sun barely made it up and was heading to the patch of pines that I knew to be a popular bedding area. I had to take him on the move, through the trees at 228 yards. He dropped in his tracks and I found later that I had shot him right through the heart.”

Click each for a larger view.

Another beautiful piebald whitetail deer

Below is a presentation by Eugene R. Fuchs of the Kerr Wildlife Management Area, Texas Parks and Wildlife (www.tpwd.state.tx.us/hillcountry). It outlines how to guesstimate the B&C score of a buck while it is still alive and moving around.

I’m sure these are common sights in and around cities near Elk herds. However, us flatladders are truely amazed by these kind of photos. I’ve seen plenty of Elk roaming the streets of Estes Park, Colorado but, these seem huge!