[mousecat33]

One weekend this last gun season at the family compound my brother spotted( and he's good at spotting spike-type bucks ) a (his words) funny-lookin' sucker... I'm sure he meant a little forker oddball thing which are very common here lately, as the local regs make it a one-buck county...
Anyways I spotted him too...I could not tell what he was at first so I did not shoot....From what I could tell, his frickin' head was bleedin'....????

I was carryin' my Blackhawk .357Max BTW... Just weren't no available shot,
got me???

Anyways, the weekend fore last, Bro finds some little forker's left fork.....
Nice and heavy like its recent...????


We 're wonderin' if the little guy took on too much and lost or if he was some kind of ?>??

regards from e.TX

mc

[Art Eatman]

When bucks get to fighting, sometimes their antlers get partially locked up and then broken. (Sometimes they get locked up and the antlers don't break, which leads to two dead deer.)

I've killed a fair number with tines broken off; more rarely, part of a main beam broken...

Art

[mousecat33]

Nice to meet you Art, but,damn......do they always "lose" like that? I certainly want to lose a fight and walk away bleeding.........

When I realized what he was, I just could not shoot....
It would've made it that much more gruesome....Kill what you eat and eat what you kill..what I've been taught.

regards from e.TX

mc

[mousecat33]

(cont. )

both tines/antlers were broken off....whole head covered in blood.....
very strange... I felt real bad for sitting there doing nada...

hadn't seen him since...

regards from e.TX,


mc

[JShirley]

First buck I shot, I thought was a doe...'cuz the side of his head facing me had the tines either knocked or shot off, and he was standing with some branches behind him.

[mousecat33]

Thinking more clear headed today, I've been wondering further into the little loner...
Having seen a cow(bovine) de-horned and witnessing excessive blood loss,
I wonder if the buck survived.....?

Also, could this affect future antler growth?

As I prefer not to shoot little 'uns, I'm wondering if it would have been fitting to cull had I the chance.....


regards from e.TX

mc