Camtrapper

Must not be bothering her to much she still checked the scrape.

Wow Duane, that is enormous!

Boy, that thing is huge. Does anyone know if those thing rupture? Nice clear pics also.

Nice pic Duane- I've seen this one other time when I was a kid. We used to go out spotlighting with my dad and I remember a deer just like that. Looked like a basketball between it's legs. Never knew what ever happend to it though.

There are a couple of other names but it is called a hydro-cyst. Here is an artical from Michigan DNR

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-15 ... --,00.html

Looks like it might be a hassle to drag around. Nice pis though.

I had a deer like that hanging around my place in late summer early fall. I thought it had a big growth but it was only about half as big as that deers.

Great catch!

Nice link mbowman . . . because they usually have an injury mark I am betting that these are initially the result of a stick or stump piece puncturing the brisket area as they run thru the woods. A piece of wood may/may not have broken off but for sure some sort of infection sets in to create the cyst. It is the perfect spot for this to happen. It is a wonder we don't see more of these the way they run thru the woods in their "get the hell out of dodge" exits that we have all seen.

Duane: A carefully and well place arrow right down thru the cyst would solve a lot of problems for this old girl. . . . let's see how good your aim is next season. . . LOL

Thanks for sharing guys.

I saw one of these a number of years ago and was wondering about it as well . I think you hit the nail on the head PaPaBob. Good info and a great post.