Elk disease Nevada

[Ridgehunter]

I’m currently on an hunt in Nevada. Any idea what’s wrong with this bull I found a few days ago? I could have pushed harder to get a shot right before last light but I was put off cause I wasn’t sure if he had an infection. I didn’t have a spotter to see If it was just a skin issue. I’m beginning to regret not trying to get a shot.

 

[Geewhiz]

No idea but that seams concerning. Did you talk to a biologist?

 

[Diced]

Think he could've gotten struck by lightning and survived it? There was a picture of a bull a little while back that had gotten struck and he had that same black "burnt" looking spot.

 

[Ridgehunter]

No idea but that seams concerning. Did you talk to a biologist?i

Not yet but I’ll reach out when the hunt is over .

 

[Ridgehunter]

Think he could've gotten struck by lightning and survived it? There was a picture of a bull a little while back that had gotten struck and he had that same black "burnt" looking spot.

Noo way. That would be insane!

 

[Gerbdog]

Makes me wonder if either of the two was "struck by lightening" after seeing that previous bulls photo and now this one.... they look almost identical in placement of the "wound" and look of the "wound".

Some sort of a disease? i have no idea

Heck maybe they both got hit by lightening. Crazier things happen.

 

[CNEdeer307]

Scabies, or at least that's what I've been told by the biologist. Here is a bull I turned up while deer hunting, he's the second nice bull this year I've seen with it in our area (NW Wyoming).