At first we weren't sure what happened. This time of year a buck can die from a number of things but it almost always has to do with their poor body condition as a result of the rut. Coyotes can pull a young buck down by relentlessly pursuing him until he can't take it anymore - he just doesn't have the stamina to withstand it for very long. This is what we thought had happened here because the deer was almost completely eaten but had only been dead a couple of days. Chase noticed that the buck only had one horn assuming he had cast the other one but after further investigation he noticed that the entire pedicle was missing along with part of the skull. This was a bit confusing but we assumed he had cast the horn and the skull injury happened after he was dead since he was almost completely eaten.
Later in the day Chase was driving through a food plot we call the 12 Point Plot - this plot has an elevated box blind on it that we put on 8 foot 4x4 post legs and braced them up with 2x4 cross braces to get it elevated and wedged in between the brace and the leg was the other horn! He had apparently been rubbing on the leg of the blind and got hung up and couldn't get loose until he eventually pulled the antler right off his head!
We scored the horns and added an estimated spread and came up with a gross score of 146 - not bad for a 2.5 year old buck......like I said - it is only the good ones that die!
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