Gored or Shot?

WannaB · 2024-09-30T14:53:46-0600

This poor fella has been right off the road up a very popular canyon in the Utah's Cache unit. He's been there for 3 days now. Gored or shot, what do you think? Whichever it is, I hate to see an animal suffer. However, they are tough suckers and he could heal up and live...who knows. Yes, the DWR is aware...

LIK2HNT · 2024-09-30T15:09:46-0600

If the left is an entrance would right behind the ribs. And the right is an exit. Definitely not gored.
But if the left is nothing, just funky hair. The right side could be from an antler.
Not much help
Nice picture though

elkhunterUT · 2024-09-30T15:11:59-0600

Something broke that G4 off at the main beam - that takes some serious force so I am guessing this bull has been fighting a bunch. Wouldn't be surprised if he was gored in the side.

mevertsen · 2024-09-30T17:24:32-0600

elkhunterUT said:
Something broke that G4 off at the main beam - that takes some serious force so I am guessing this bull has been fighting a bunch. Wouldn't be surprised if he was gored in the side.

I concur. The left side Just looks like funky hair.

That's a big hole on the right.

Mallardsx2 · 2024-09-30T17:27:46-0600

I'm betting he heals up and lives. Elk are some tough critters.

BrowningRage · 2024-09-30T17:41:45-0600

I think definitely gored. Looks like a large, but somewhat shallow wounded. If it doesn't get infected, he could heal up.

tailchasers · 2024-09-30T18:23:57-0600

Had a Sheila antelope a few years back dragging some of her own gut after we watched he get plowed and subsequently hooked by a rutting buck. The rut can be violent!! Crazy pic!!

Homer · 2024-09-30T18:45:13-0600

That's a long range muzzy pass through......he's done...

HntHrdr · 2024-09-30T18:57:06-0600

I’m going with gored, know of a bull killed by a lucky hunter this year ( guy walked up on two giants fighting and arrowed one after they unlocked) well goes to get the skull cleaned in town for a euro and taxi says he can’t do it, bulls entire skull and jaw are crushed on one side, bull lost most of his molars probably would have died this winter, oh and supposedly it was a 380 bull. I never got to lay eyes on it. The rut is absolutely brutal! Hell bulls will gore and kill cows sometimes when they get too heated. Just nature being natural

yoteduster · 2024-09-30T19:16:11-0600

Don't know for sure.. But he's definitely pretty sick..I'd say he's a gonner

Tank · 2024-09-30T19:24:53-0600

He looks like a fighter to me. But he's not going to make another yr. Probably going septic, and trying to keep BP up. His days are numbered. Nature is rough. Death doesn't come easy as people want to believe