Buck with 5-Gallon Bucket Stuck in Antlers???

• Feb 13, 2009

• #1

BornToHuntAndFish

Senior Member

Any guesses as to how anyone thinks this nice buck ended up this way in the 2 photos?

Looks like he may have to wait to shed his antlers to get rid of that bucket on his head. Wonder how this is impacting his navigation thru the woods or if it's throwing him off balance a little bit, especially when he leans over to eat or drink water.

Details & pics from:

http://www.american-hunter.com/2009/02/12/buckethead-buck


Buckethead Buck
Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Dan Jackson

Tags: Awesome Antlers //

This is one of the funniest trail cam pictures I have ever seen - I can only imagine how that happend …

 

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• Feb 13, 2009

• #2

Chris 195 7/8 B&C

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That is too funny! I'm betting that bucket had corn in it at one time or another. For his sake I hope it doesn't still have something in it.

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #3

bull0ne

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When the deer start bring YOU another bucket.............that's a good sign that you need to bring more corn next time.

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #4

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gspbrad

Senior Member

Find the bucket.........you find his sheds

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #5

doublelungdriller

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• Feb 13, 2009

• #6

fulldraw74

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Another satisfied customer from Fulldraw Farms.......

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #7

sman

Senior Member

Funny, man that is a nice buck. Wonder if someone put the bucket a little to close to his rub line and he just go carried away.

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #8

rsm

Senior Member

Maybe he is carrying water and food back to thicket so he can bed down longer.

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #9

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Mako22

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Photo shop.

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #10

Blondie~4~Browning

Senior Member

Well I guess the bucks have to pack for survival too, huh?

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #11

Twiggbuster

Senior Member

Look at his neck. Rutting or working out?! or both.

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #12

cball917

Senior Member

i guess you can get a really good idea on his inside spread dimensions

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #13

Killdee

Senior Member

Might either be a bucket someone was sitting on or an empty hydraulic? fluid bucket loggers are known to leave in the woods.

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #14

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redneckcamo

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lol

Twiggbuster said:

Look at his neck. Rutting or working out?! or both.

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neck curls 24/7 !!!

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #15

Handgunner

Senior Member

Adds a whole new meaning to "buckethead"..

 

• Feb 13, 2009

• #16

Browtine

Senior Member

Some of 'em get crazy with items in the woods, yards, etc... My Dad had some fake geese in his yard as part of a landscape. A buck kept pushing them up with it's antlers. Never got them stuck like that bucket is, but it threw them around pretty good. He thought someone was messing with them until he saw the deer there.

 

• Feb 14, 2009

• #17

BornToHuntAndFish

Senior Member

From Scott Bestul @ Field & Stream

1 of the 2 photos was posted also at:

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hunting/2009/02/bucktracker-bucket-head


February 11, 2009

BuckTracker: Bucket Head

Over the years, I’ve seen pictures of bucks with all sorts of paraphernalia tangled in their racks; tree branches and limbs, barbed (and other) wire, even the head of another buck! The latter was a documented case, by the way; a hunter shot a buck that had apparently locked antlers with another deer, which had died. Somehow the live buck had been able to twist the dead buck’s head off the carcass and escape. The operating theory was that coyotes had eaten through much of the neck. Why the live buck was ignored by the coyotes is a mystery.

The photo here shows nothing that dramatic, but it is the first I’ve seen of a five-gallon pail stuck in whitetail antlers. The bucket is obviously deteriorated enough to make it entirely plausible that a curious (or simply feisty) buck could get his tines entangled in the plastic.

Or, of course, this is yet another example of someone having fun with their photo shop skills. So what do you think? Real or no? Any good stories of bucks with junk snagged up in their antlers?

Comments (26)

 

• Feb 14, 2009

• #18

seaweaver

Senior Member

Killdee said:

Might either be a bucket someone was sitting on or an empty hydraulic? fluid bucket loggers are known to leave in the woods.

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That's what I was thinking.
Hog feeders are like that too.
You hang them from a tree so the hog has to stand and buck the corn out of a small hole.
Perhaps the deer learned from hogs and tore the line.
cw

 

• Feb 14, 2009

• #19

Public Land Prowler

Senior Member

That would make a unique mount..lol

 

• Feb 14, 2009

• #20

bublewis

Senior Member

Can you please tell me where that buck(et) was last sighted, I would like my feeder back. I can't afford them fancy Moultrie feeders in this here economy!