Wildlife officers had tried to tranquilize this bull three times earlier in the week. “We would have preferred to cut the tire and leave the antlers for his rutting activity, but the situation was dynamic and we had to just get the tire off in any way possible,” shared CPW. Fortunately, the bull’s neck still had a little room to move.” Bull elk shed and regrow their antlers every year. “It was not easy for sure, we had to move it just right to get it off because we weren’t able to cut the steel in the bead of the tire. “It was tight removing it,” Murdoch said of pulling the tire off the bull’s neck, even after cutting its antlers off. Wildlife officers Dawson Swanson and Scott Murdoch near the community of Pine, southwest of Denver, were able to tranquilize the elk and get the tire Saturday night. A bull elk with a tire around its neck for at least two years is finally free, thanks to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers.
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