This picture is of a buck taken by Roger Jarvis, coach of the 14U Banditos baseball team out of Houston. He scored 316 5/8” and was killed in 2008 in northern Missouri (Free range). It is still being researched for the books (where it was killed etc.). It is number 2 in the US. and number 1 ever taken by a hunter. The other deer that actually makes this a number 2 was found not killed by a hunter.

Roger Jarvis, Missouri, bags a nice one

Boone and Crockett has an update to this story. Sadly, this one won’t get B&C certification.

Wow!

Wow! Monster Mule Deer Taken in Mexico

A dream photo

Another view of the Monster Mule Deer Taken in Mexico

Side view of the Monster Mule Deer Taken in Mexico

I’m not so sure about how “odd” this really is but, it is pretty interesting and borderline hillarious.  This came to me via email without any back story.  If you know the details, please let me know and I’ll share them on this dite.

OK, definitely odd.

Man on a bicycle carrying a calf

Here’s a nice picture of how nature works.  It’s a well known fact that feral pigs have become a nuisance all over the country.  And, a little known fact is that pigs are omnivorous.  After seeing the episode Mike Rowe did on Dirty Jobs where he followed the guy that raised hogs and fed them left overs from Las Vegas casinos, basically, they’ll eat just about anything.

This one apparently was dining on the innards of a downed longhorn steer.  Here’s the text from the email I received.

“Seems the old longhorn steer they had got sick, he had to shoot it. Thanksgiving he was back up there and found a pig stuck in the butt-hole. He took a picture of it, the camera noise startled the pig.  He then struggled and broke the butt-hold and took off into the woods.”

Keep those cards and letters coming.

Nice.

Piglet stuck in a steers butt

A piebald whitetail deer was taken near Corsicana Texas. Piebaldism, — sometimes called skewbald — is rare in whitetail deer. If it was a horse we’d call it a “paint” horse. Piebald usually refers to black and white coloration and skewbald then is used for white and non-black colorations. So, I would say the proper term to use here is skewbald. However, the pictures came to me describing the deer as “piebald” so I decided to go with that term.

It’s a beautiful deer regardless of the name you give it.

Unique coloration of mature whitetail buck

Another angle showing the unique coloration

A good angle showing the piebald (skewbald) coloration