something you don't see just everyday

[broncobilly]

OK, maybe you do, but I don't.


locked deer pic1

I don't know how long they had been locked togather, but the one on the ground was already dead. The antlers were sawed off the dead one to try to save the live one, but it was to late, he was already stressed to much. Neither buck was particularily large, but both were big enough that my boys would have been glad to take either if they had survived till deer season.

Bill

[Spanky]

Never seen it on my own but know several fellas that have found locked sets of horns from both deer. I'm sure it happens more times then we realize.

[Majestic Tree Hound]

More than once in and around Jeffery City, Wyo. we have found 2 Buck Prong Horn cought in Fences, gess they do alot of fighting thru them..

[Emily]

[FullCryHounds]

[nmplott]

[FullCryHounds]

[broncobilly]

[FullCryHounds]

I could have picked any breed, bluetick just came to mind first! I've done several mounts of two animals fighting. Here's a cheaper way to do it, just a shoulder mount of them.

[broncobilly]

[FullCryHounds]

[broncobilly]

lol, that would have been a picture to have.

Bill

[Josh Kunde]

My dad told me a story about a distant cousin who had found to muley bucks that were locked together, both were dead and it was just the heads and a couple vertibrate. He ended up mounting them himself and donateing them to a local gunshop, and the way the bucks were locked it fit perfect in the corner of the ceiling. it was pretty cool because I got to go see them a couple years ago.
Josh

[arachyd]

It doesn't really have anything to do with their intelligence that they stay locked even after one dies. The antler tines spread a tiny bit from the impact of the deer when they hit together then return as much as possible to their original shape, locking the deer together. There is no way for the deer to apply opposite pressure outward from between its antler tines to unlock them.