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Story goes like this: On trip to Taku Harbor some folks encountered four deer swimming. [to me it looks just north of Grand Island and a bit south of Slocum Inlet] They figured they maybe had about ten or fifteen minutes left before drowning. They swam to the boat, They lassoed them and brought them on board. Only one was able to stand when we got to Taku Harbor about 30-45 minutes later. Got them off boat, one (strongest) walked on dock, jumped in and swam to shore, we walked two more up after we could get them to stand and then rubbed down the last one and half carried him to top of dock. He had stood up for a bit and if he could get a bit warmer and rest for half an hour probably could join his buddies. Four "button" bucks that will hopefully produce smarter offspring....what an experience. [img] http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Deer-8M.JPG[/img] I think I posted a picture of a brown bear swimming in this general vicinity earlier in the year. .
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Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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Great Story and pics, thanks for that!! I'm amazed they were willing to swim to the boat.
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Wow. Great job! Could be a dangerous one too. Glad they were that worn out in one way
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What's really amazing is that a pod o f killer whales didn't eat them for breakfast. Cool pics and kudos for saving those youngsters from certain death.
That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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Just wanted to clarify that I did not rescue or have anything to do with this rescue. I just posted the narrative of what happened. This is my stomping grounds south of J-town tho.
I rubbed the faces of those involved as I'm not exactly sure how Fin, Fur and Feathers feels about folks "helping" animals this way.
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What's really amazing is that a pod o f killer whales didn't eat them for breakfast. Cool pics and kudos for saving those youngsters from certain death. Not a whole lot of KW's around this time of year. Buddy watched a KW kill a moose that tried to swim from Gustavus (mainland) over to Pleasant Island.
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Didn't know that, but I had heard a story about some killer whales killing and eating a couple of moose that were trying to swim across a huge bay. Not sure exactly where it was though.
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If a Deer thinks: "Here I almost died from drowning and now I'm being hung. I should have stayed in my bed."
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Good on you. Fat little critters they been eating good.
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That's pretty cool. Great pics.
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.... as I'm not exactly sure how Fin, Fur and Feathers feels about folks "helping" animals this way. Was wondering the same thing. I've been guilty of rescuing some animals myself, in the past. Can be hard at times to tell yourself: "Let 'em be. Nature will take it's course."
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Way to go Muskegman, er, or your unknown assistants. Screw F&G if they have a problem with it. Its mans humanity to animals, even though we argue constantly about the best way to kill 'em. Kudos to your crew from the wife, who just saw the pics.
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That's pretty cool. Thanks for posting the report.
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Very enjoyable/interesting pics and story. It makes one wonder if they will be susceptible to fear human contact less.
Thanks for posting this.
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Its almost like they came over asking for assistance. Pretty neat actually. Course we save them on monday and kill 'em on saturday.
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Well done, only big game hunters would do something like that. Those guys are not very big, I would love to just look at those all day.
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I was clearing grass clumps from an abandoned strip on the AK Pen years ago, so we could use it for bigger planes and crosswind for our ADF&G fish counting station. A cow caribou came trotting across the tundra and right up to me- like about 10 feet. A few minutes later I heard wolves howling not far off. She stayed right there for the next 5 or 6 hours, never more than 30 yards or so.
Any port in a storm.....
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Oh yeah, that wheelbarrow picture is a classic!
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