Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anyone ever shoot an Elk in the antler?

It was an honest inquiry. I promise.

Yes. dropped him like a pole axe. But he started shaking his head a few minutes later, then stood up and presented a standing heart shot.

Had a fellow shoot an Axis bout halfway between antler base an eyeguard(brow tine). Dropped him in trax,out cold. 15 mins later he woke up an hauled ass.Never to be found. I ran across him this past summer and after a week or so of watching him decided to take him out. The skull plate was literally cracked around the base of antlers and could be moved around enough to see inside the skull. I assume that deer had a rough few months and was glad to put him out of misery

I thought I shot one in the antler once but it was actually a solid high left shoulder neck glancing kill shot.
Right where I was aiming. Some pretty bad azz scheit.

i knew a guy who was archery hunting and had buck fever so bad that he launched an arrow into a bucks antlers. Buck took off running totally unharmed

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Never shot at an elk, but in 2000 i lunged a decent buck with a 12 gauge slug. As he ran off I sent another slug and took off his right antler right at the brow tine.
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nicked a deer antler right at the brow tine and knocked him out with a 12 ga. . walked up on him and he opened his eyes and blinked so i put one in the neck.

Is this Beaver's sock Puppet?

My son hit a bull that dropped like a rock on his first elk hunt. Problem was that he took off running down to the bull, lost sight of it when he got into some oak brush. Bull got up and walked off. Had he stayed in place he could have easily dropped the bull with a second shot.

Seen it happen a couple years ago. The elk dropped like he’d been hit with a sledgehammer. After about 4 minutes he started shaking his head, a minute later he was standing, and 15 seconds later he gone.

Some bad decisions were made that day.

I’ve picked up a few sheds over the years with what looked like 22 holes in them. Always wondered if someone was trying to shoot them off their heads.

Shot a 4 pt whitetail in the face with a load of no4 buck ,killed him but took off both horns

HAHAHA! That made me LOL.

Thanks for that!

That aside, my brother clipped the antler clean off a whitetail buck just above the skull with a 12 gauge slug once and split his skull plate between his antlers and killed him stone dead. Never cut a hair.

I asked him what the hell he was aiming for and he said his other antler.

True story.

Funny man.

I was videoing a bull on a hunt that my friend and his dad had tags for. It was decided the dad had dibs, but my friend was going to be ready for a backup shot if necessary. The dad made a fatal hit and my friend knocked it right in the antler anyway. Bull was down for the count. We still give my friend a hard time over it 😆

No, never heard of it. Forward queries to JohnBurps@[bleep]

Seems the thread didn’t go as planned for jackinthecrack


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#FightingWords

That doesn’t matter for a queen not planning to leave NM.

Herve Villechaize is upset!

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