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A friend had emailed me this story. Yet while it would be very impressive, you still have to ask yourself if it is for real? Just wondering what you guys think and wanted to share and spread the story.

"Supposedly a family had leased some land East of Mahnomen, MN and
have pretty much done nothing with the land besides raise BIG bucks, well
last year they found out they were losing the lease so they decide to
do some intensive hunting since it would be their last chance.
After 25 years of trophy deer management these folks found out they
were losing their lease. They went buck wild and I don't blame them."

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Ahhhhhhhhh.... Wow????

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No it isn't, look at some of the deer's eyes and ears. Some of those deer are shoulder mounted

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Staged pic with mounts. The only authentic thing about it is that one really couldkill that many big bucks in a short time onmany "managed" operations.

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To shoot that many deer in one season you would have to have access to many, many acres.

Doesn't matter how long you manage for big deer, you'll only get so many big ones to stay around, like maybe 1-2per 100 acres. Just can't stockpile mature bucks on a small property, it's not their nature.

That sure is a pile of deer though.

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I agree with the ENTIRE post.

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Norby,

I've seen plenty of pics of managed operations where you had a half dozen huge bucks clustered around one feeder. You feed 'em and pamper 'em and they will get big and stick around in large numbers.Why else would people want to "trophy manage" to begin with:D

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Damn, that is alot of deer I do not believe all those were taken in one season. you would have to have thousands of acres, and tons of tags. I agree too that some of them are shoulder mounted because the way they are positioned and the way the picture was taken.

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I smell a hoax.

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But then again they could have intensively managed their land, food plots, minerals, feeders, etc. That is possible but they might have introduced some genetics like impregnating does with Texan high quality genetics, or introducing some deer from a breeder onto the lease. It could be very well possible, but they would have to have a large, large piece of land.

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Take a look at some of the numbers of trophy bucks taken from relatively small managed outfitting operations that are advertised in states like Illinois. If it is "intensive" management, you don't need a ranch the size of Rhode Island to have a lot of really big bucks available for the taking, especially if, as the picture alleges, you have decided to wipe out the herd.

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If it is real I doubt that harvesting that many deer should has not gotten the attention of fish and game,even if it is managed land.if it is real that s not cool they should have relocated some of them to more needy land like New Jersey.

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Your right theres no fish eyes in any of them.
They look like they are alive.

It does look fake.

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This photo has be debunked already ill try to find it... STILL COOL AS HELL THOUGH! :D

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Where do you think Texas got their genetics from??? (wink.. wink... a little hint.... the midwest!)

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Looks like a huge baiting operation.

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That's a real beautiful sight, seeing all those racks piled up. Try and count them up, it took me a couple tries cause I kept losing track with the way they're intertwined. I counted 27!! With 11 hunters standing there some guys shot 3. How many buck can you shoot in Minnesota? I agree some could be mounts with the way they're positioned and no tongues hanging out, maybe it was over 2 years, still a lot of good bucks.

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I got the same email a while back, there should be another picture with it where they had all the mounts in the back of a truck as well. The majority of them are mounted already. Its tough to find that many harvested deer without a tongue hanging out! Its still quite a picture. Even if it was just a picture with all the deer they have taken off the land over the years its still quitea piece of hunting ground!

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Either way mounted or not there are some good deer there

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Yes, this pic was posted a looonge time ago. And yes, there's much to it that doesn't meet the eye. I too counted them, and came up with exactly 27! There's almost NO WAY all of those BIG bucks were taken in a VERY short span of time, which they would have to have been,to able to have themphotographed (whole) together like that. The ONLY "possable" way would be if those people had a friggen slaughter at a "high fence game farm"!
SOMETHING STINKS IN DENMARK!!!!!!!!;)

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If that is a Photoshop fraud, it's avery good one. The edges are pretty clean, the lighting/shadows consistent, no obvious duplication of heads/racks. If somebody did this digitally, they're very talented. Not impossible, but not likely.

I think it a "real world" fraud; shoulder mounted deer intermixed with fresh/whole deer. Stunt deer.

As stated before, not a speck of blood anywhere, no tongues hanging out, no "glowing" eyes, andmany of the heads are unnaturally "erect" (it's not cold in that picture, so the deer aren't frozen).

Add to this, to harvest 27 mature shooter deer in one season would have to require multiple 1000s of acres, or a deer farm;). The normal limit in Minnesota is 1 buck per year (regardless of method). There's a bonus tag system, but I think that is only for antlerless deer (I could easily be wrong on that).

-nosualc

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Still impressive sized deer

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some of those are definately shoulder mounts... maybe it is all of the deer they have collectively taken off of the lease over the years or something...

I don't think it would be legal to have that many tags for 1 season.

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According to the metadata the picture was taken 11-09-2007, so it has been floating around a while.

-nosualc

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thats dicusting to me because if you can shoot that many deer in one season thats not right............ im jelose part of thats why im mad because i never shot a buck yet thats why im so mad[:@]

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I don't even think this is staged. Something about it just screams it's been photo shopped to me. First thing i don't like is that head that is sticking out in front of the women with white hair on the left. Some of the deer's ears appear to be erect, some are not. Some of the shadows seem a bit off to me as well. As someone who knows Photoshop, I can tell you if something looks unnatural, it probably is. This just screams photoshop to me.

Composite of various pictures of mounted deer and freshly harvested deer. that's my take.

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wow that a lot of bone

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Some do look like head mounts as you guys stated. But also, there are only about 11 people in the photo with way more bucks...so either some people are missing, they broke MN game laws, or tagged with other people's tags....I don't think the whole thing is real, but perhaps some of the deer came from the property. That many bucks on one lease? Unlikely.

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Mahnomen is a little over an hour from me here in Mn. and nosualic is right 1 buck per calender year. It is fairly good hunting over there some good farm land but nothing spectacular like you see there. For one there is no lease over there big enough to hold that many mature bucks and no one chunk of private ground over there that large for that matter any way. lots of smaller farms private chunks 200 acres on average or less. It's funny I never have heard of this photo before and obvoiusly if it was real I would have. I find it espicially hard to believe that even if they had taken all these big bucks on this property over a period of years that they would lose this lease, there is only so many reasons to lose a lease, someone else wants to pay more and why would they let that happen espicially if they take all these big bucks on it, maybe landowner wants them out all they would have to do is pay more, money talks and people will pay for it if this is real, another possible factor would be a timber company leased it to them such as potlatch timber corp but on average there properties are 40,80 100 or a little more and all the timber is mature jack pine and immature red pine, the deer would obviously not be in there much anyway they would be in the farm land wich is what that country is over there. So take it from me this whole thing is big time phony and I would be willing to bet that maybe half them big bucks came from that property in the whole 25 years they leased it. ;)

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I don't think so, look at some of the deer' positions, some of them have their head picked up without nobody holding them, and agreeing with some of the other posts, you can also look at their eyes.

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and another thing about this picture is there is no way anyone would pile them all on top, they would have them more spread out to show them off better I would think, looks like there might be two fresh deer if that in there.

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Theyre mounted deer!

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they re shoulder mounted look at the eyes and ears