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Post by skobydog » Fri. Feb. 19, 2016 11:02 pm

I was emptying my coals yesterday and came across these tracks through my yard. This was the only set. Looks like whatever it was got a drink from the brook, worked their antlers against some lower brush, and left the yard.

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Post by freetown fred » Fri. Feb. 19, 2016 11:28 pm

Deer--tough w/ all the blowin snow--that or a horned platypus :D

 
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Post by Logs » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 12:19 am

How can ya tell if it had horns just by looking at the tracks toothy toothy

 
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Post by skobydog » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 12:41 am

I thought it was going to be something a bit more exciting. :(

 
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Post by davidmcbeth3 » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 1:19 am

That's a deer, eh.

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Post by SWPaDon » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 7:46 am

It's unicorn tracks, don't ya see the 'V' on there? :rofl:

 
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Post by waldo lemieux » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 9:29 am

Sorry boys , those aint deer tracks, Ifn' they were deer tracks that big theyd be way further apart. Ima throw snowshoe rabbit out there :notsure:

 
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Post by johnjoseph » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 9:48 am

It's a baby sasquach!

 
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Post by gaw » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 10:09 am

When I was a kid a couple of Polish guys were hunting a few miles east of here and they came upon some tracks. While they were standing there trying to decide what animal made the tracks the train hit them. :shock:

Those are big tracks in relation to the shoe in the picture so I guess you think it’s a moose since you’re in Vermont.

 
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Post by SWPaDon » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 10:12 am

gaw wrote:When I was a kid a couple of Polish guys were hunting a few miles east of here and they came upon some tracks. While they were standing there trying to decide what animal made the tracks the train hit them. :shock:

Those are big tracks in relation to the shoe in the picture so I guess you think it’s a moose since you’re in Vermont.
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Post by waldo lemieux » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 10:40 am

I would have to concur, I totally missed the VT. thing. I was thinking PA.....

 
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Post by franco b » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 11:36 am

The devil has cloven hoofs too.

Check for tracks on your roof.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Sat. Feb. 20, 2016 1:28 pm

franco b wrote:The devil has cloven hoofs too.

Check for tracks on your roof.
:clap: toothy

 
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Post by skobydog » Mon. Mar. 14, 2016 10:09 am

gaw wrote:When I was a kid a couple of Polish guys were hunting a few miles east of here and they came upon some tracks. While they were standing there trying to decide what animal made the tracks the train hit them. :shock:

Those are big tracks in relation to the shoe in the picture so I guess you think it’s a moose since you’re in Vermont.
Hey, I resemble that remark...... :lol:

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