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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

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.

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..

the intelligence of a species that can't even unlock after its sparring partner is dead! Its a wonder any of them survive...
Sure would have made an interesting trophy if they hadn't been sawed apart...

"Something you don't see everyday"

Ha, I thought you were going to show a picture of a bluetick actually treeing something!

yeah if it was titled "something you wont believe" it would have had a walker actually hunting

OK, I deserved that!

Emily,

Your right, I wish now that I had left them alone, but at the time I though I could save the one that was still alive. Hindsight is so much better than forsight. Oh well, I probably couldn't have afforded the taxidermy bill any way. You know how outrageously expensive those taxidermist are.(JK Dean)

LOL at Dean, if I ever get a pic of my bluetick treeing anything, I will email you. And since I hunt mostly hogs, that will be pretty rare indeed.

Actually, I have never seen a dog of any breed that could tree a hog.LOL

Bill

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.

FullCryHounds wrote: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.

Yeah, I knew that you were joking Dean, was just trying to make a joke myself, but I guess it wasn't funny. I think I'll give up on that.

Bill

Hey Bill, Years ago, I ran hogs in CA. One time we got to the hog just to find one dog up in a bush. The hog had him treed!! That would have been a picture for sure. Soon as we got there, the hog took off.

lol, that would have been a picture to have.

Bill

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

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.