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Author Topic: Dead deer mysteries  (Read 1437 times)

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Offline jkcmj

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Every year I come across dozens of dead whitetails while I am shed hunting.  I often wonder how they die.  Some obviosly get wounded during the hunting season and are lost, some fall prey to coyotes, wolves, starvation, disease, vehicle collisions, etc. 


This was one of the more unique ones I came across.  The deer, a mature buck, died with his toe caught in the fence wire.  I thought it seemed unlikely that it would have held him until I tried to pull the foot out and found it so tightly caught that I would have had to cut the wire to remove it.  I then thought it an interesting find for the next passerby and left it as it lay.  I turned the skull in the background over and found it to have fairly heavy mass and the antlers mostly having been chewed off.  At least a 3 or possibly a 4 year old deer.

Offline mopho

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all this coolness and only 2 pics? :banghead:

Offline Ritz

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I came across this big buck on the way to my stand a couple weeks ago. It was a couple days before the Mn gun season. I took the pics and cut off the antlers... :cry: 

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Offline HUNTER2

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It doesn't take long for the coyotes to eat up. My nephew shot a 6 pointer and didn't find it right away and the next day they found it and it looked the same. I talked to a trapper over by my place and he said there is about 4 packs over there. I had a shot with my bow at one this year and never did find my arrow.
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