Record bull found alive stuck upside down with antlers stuck in the frozen mud!!! But that’s when the story gets really crazy!
On the final morning of Minnesota’s muzzleloader season, Ryan Muirhead headed out hoping to fill a whitetail tag and instead came across something unbelievable. Lying flat on its back in –25 degree temperatures was a massive bull elk, still alive, with its enormous antlers pinned into the frozen mud. Muirhead spotted the bull from the road, grabbed a 2×4, and managed to pry the antlers loose, freeing the animal. The bull staggered back into the woods, badly weakened from the ordeal.
Muirhead suspected the bull wouldn’t survive and returned over the next two days to watch it from a distance. Two days later, the elk died, and the Minnesota DNR was contacted. The antlers were later scored at an astonishing 475 5/8 inches, making this bull the largest ever recorded in Minnesota and ranking third biggest in the world. Muirhead was allowed to keep the antlers and had the bull mounted, capping off one of the wildest and most unbelievable wildlife stories ever documented.