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Locked Deer

Post by 79Ford » Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:12 am

I got this in an email. Not sure if the story is accurate, but the pictures tell enough of a story by themselves. Sorry if it's a repost.



The folks that took these pictures live in Larchwood Iowa .
All photos are compliments of Terry and Sherry Bolding

On November 6, a relative, Donna Viereck, called to tell us that she was driving to Canton , South Dakota and had seen a buck in the distance with his head down. It wasn't moving, and although she honked the car horn repeatedly, he wouldn't raise his head.

She grabbed her binoculars and looked at him, and saw that the buck's horns were entangled with those of another one, which was dead. So she called us and asked if we wanted an adventure -- untangling the animals! Well, we went, pronto!!! I took my camera and we walked right up to them.

They were tangled in an old fence line just east of a golf course, where some railroad tracks had been. The live buck was on the high side, and the dead buck on the slope. The other buck had been dead for 2 or 3 days, we estimated.

Terry attempted to break a point off the dead buck's rack with his pliers, but couldn't.... He tried turning the dead buck's head but the other one just became more frightened and started backing up.

The live buck had the bigger rack - a 5 x 6. The dead buck was bigger bodied and looked to be an older deer. It had more "stickers" on its rack.

The now scared buck eventually got out of the fence, and out in the open. Terry pulled an old post out of the fence line and used it to try and pry the racks loose, but it didn't work.

We finally decided to go to a friend's house in order to borrow his chainsaw, but then we thought something quieter would be better, and so got a hacksaw instead. Terry sawed the main beam on the dead buck and then other one was free!

The buck didn't realize this for probably 30 seconds or so. When he did, he started striking the dead buck in the face repeatedly.

He finally raised his head a little, and then a little more. He stood there with his head held high looking at both of us and we wondered if he were going to try charging us too! Then he turned and ran off rather wobbly. He went a short distance, lay down briefly, and then got up and took off in the direction of the Big Sioux River .

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Post by MuleyMadness » Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:25 am

WOW, crazy pics. Very cool, glad the one survived. He actually looks really good compared to the other dead one. Looks to be pretty healthy. :thumb

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Post by camodup » Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:33 am

Yeah he does look way healthy, and his got a nice rack :thumb

I saw this once with Elk on a tv show, it was up in Yellowstone park, and the rangers took a saw and cut off some of the dead elks antler so the live one could escape. Thats crazy stuff, i really liked the fence with these two, you dont see that every day.
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Re: Locked Deer

Post by zatarain6 » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:11 am

wow , nice pics .

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Re: Locked Deer

Post by waynedevore » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:04 am

Nice set of pics! What an adventure. Good job saving the buck.

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Re: Locked Deer

Post by primal215 » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:41 pm

That most have been a awsome adventure, maybe more fun then shooting the beast.

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Re: Locked Deer

Post by Mularcher » Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:03 pm

Congrads to the guy separating them I doubt he could have live long dragged the dead deer around.
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