Deer are tough...

[Woody Williams]

This picture shows just how tough these critters are.

The antler is embedded 8" into the buck's neck.

[schnarrfuss]

Deer are very tough. My brother shot a small 6pt 2 weeks ago. It was hit by a car probably in late summer (had a broken shoulder) and while we were butchering it we pulled 5 inches of arrow and a wasp broadhead out of it. It was shot through the neck and into the shoulder bone. Unreal!!

[The Butcher]

I'd like to have shot the buck that the other antler belonged to. They are very under estimated toughness wise, because of their looks. How could somethng so beatiful be so darned tough. I have a friend, who is a farmer. 6'3", 240 lbs, and he raises deer. After an attack during the rut while feeding, and an antler through his hand, he now saws off all the antlers before rut. He still says don't turn your back on them, cause they'll ram you and paw you to death. He said he was feeding, and one rammed him, and he turned and punched it in the head, (I'd rather get hit by a sledge hammer), and he said it just put it's head down and tried again. Just ask a meat cutter what they find in deer every year, it is unreal. I saw an article, I think on the web somewhere, showing things found in deer. I have to laugh, because one of the things was a hunting knife. Can you imagine the look on the guys face, when the deer took off with his knife. The amazing thing, is it healed from a bow or gun wound, was almost gutted, and lived. Amazing. Butcher

[speedball]

wow that must of been one hell of a fight for him to have the other bucks antler break off!!!!!

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[Mr. Dynamite]

yea, saw that pic the other day on another site. nice

i read in a book by Rue III he heard of a stick in a lung that had healed, and a bone inside a heart

knives and other broadheads though? increadible

[Woody Williams]

I found the details on this buck...from another site

"I had scouted some deer that had a HUGE buck, as i got closer he
ran away but this other LARGE buck approached.

As the LARGE deer got closer i noticed that he only had one side of
his antlers. I let him pass but decided to come again to that spot the next day.

Day TWO, I got to the same spot and sat for a while and saw another LARGE deer approaching - odd enough it looked as if part of his antlers were broken and hanging from his rack - as I continued to look - it began to seem as if maybe he had been fighting and the other deer's antler had gotten broken off and lodged in his rack.

I shot - and dropped the deer.

As I approach the deer, I thought that the attached antler had fallen off -
to my surprise - as i picked up the deer head to look at the rack - i notice
that I had been wrong - the antler was not dangling from the deer - it was
LODGED into the side of the deer's NECK."

At the Taxadermist - they discovered that the antler had actually
lodged 8 IN into the deer's neck.

We have no idea how this happened - the RUT is in full swing up here
and there has been lots of rattling antlers."



Great photos

Stumbled across this link to hundreds of spectacular photos and thought I'd share...enjoy....

http://www.polarfoto.de/en/archiv.htm

[GREYWOLF]

Some great photo's there , thanks for the link GREYWOLF

[Livtahunt]

wow I wonder if you can get it mounted like that

[codney]

i shot one a few years ago with a 30-06 and did not find it. found several drops of blood . 2 weeks later i killed a small 7 point little did i know it was the same deer. found out when i cleaned it its spine had about a inch gone