Locked Horns

[mws4dux]

Buddy and I were on our way to work wed. morning when I saw two nice bucks locked up.We pulled over to watch.They were about 50 yds off the hwy.Then a few other guys stopped we watched for a bit. We called a CO officer and the state patrol.Then one of the guys said we should go and try and free them,one of them was already dead. So four of us tried pulling,yanking,tugging and prying with no luck.We then tried to knock off the antler on the dead buck with a hammer again no luck.Then one guy remembered he had a saw in the truck.He was able to saw one antler on the dead buck. The live buck tho a little weak and hobbled regained some strength and took off running over a hill.Hope he makes it a really nice buck. The other guys all left so my buddy and I waited for an officer to show. When two state patrol cars pulled up we went over to talk to them.They asked where the two deer are.We said we freed one and one was dead. The one looked at us like we were nuts and said he came here to shoot them. The other one said with a smile we did the right thing and offered to gut the deer seeing we didnt have a knife.Both were great guys.All the work was done when another gentleman pulled up.He said he heard about it on a scanner and called someone who said he could have the deer.The officer told him we were the first ones to stop we freed the one gutted it and got him to the shoulder of the road so we get it. The guy then got upset that we didnt kill the other one so he could have one. I just said never thought of it. The dead buck had 15 pts with a 4" drop tine weighed 180-190.There were two more patrol cars on their way to see the two deer when they were called off

[mws4dux]

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[AuggieDawg11]

That's a mess of antlers! Way to go on getting the other buck free.

[archerystud]

Great story, thanks for sharing.

[mws4dux]

click on photo hope it works

[Surface Tension]

Great story.

Kudos to you for stepping in to release the buck.

I have done the same except................

I would have cut the antlers off the live buck. Then you'd have two sets.

[walleyehunter80]

yeah cut the antlers off live buck, it would have saved his life twice in one year! Just make sure you leave less than 3"

[engfish]

You guys are crazy--but lucky to get an experience like that.

Unbelievable!

[Bran32]

That would have been awesome to see! Glad to see one made it out alive!

[Jack Peterson]

Crazy stuff! nice work.

[gr8icefishinmind]

Wonder how often that actually happens when two bucks lock horns and can't get disconnected! If those two wouldn't have been found there would have been two dead trophies instead of one from locking horns!

[pinkfloyd4ever]

nice job

[nonteepical]

thats something you don't see every day, good job!. did you rock, paper, scissors for the dead deer? did anyone have a buck tag you could of taken the live one. of course if you did that the CO may have given you a citation for tresspassing or something and confiscated both deer. i'm surprised they didn't take the one.

[flipper]

Incredible story. What a great memory you will always have.

[jwmiller33]

wow that is definitely something you don't see everyday! i wonder how long they were locked like that to have the other buck die... do you guys think he died of starvation? dehydration?

[eyeguy 54]

Me thinks he died of jealousy, :>). Exhaustion most likely. Great story!

[creepworm]

Most likely the other buck will die as well. if they are that tired that they allow humans to get that close, it is not a good sign.

[paul pachowicz]

A coouple years ago two yuppies found two bull elk locked up. One just about dead and the other floundering. He decides to he is gonna seperate them instead he got gored under the rib cage but didn't quite reach his heart. He spent a week in the hospital and when inviewed stated "it was stronger then me". Imagine that!!! an elk stronger then a human. I can't remember what became of the bulls.

[derek5]

The other buck will likely be fine, he let the guys get that close cause he didn't have any other option. He couldn't run away from humans cause he had a 200lb anchor. Nice job and great story!!

[highlife4me]

Very nice job guys, I bet if there was an award for who's got the biggest balls and smallest brain you win. All kidding aside you did the right thing as I'm sure most ethical hunters would have done the same.

[mws4dux]

The dead buck died from being stabbed around 5 to 6 times,when we skinned the deer the front shoulder was pretty messed up with a huge hole and a few in his rib cage.The front shoulder was basically a huge blood clot.The deer were in a park in the metro so killing the live buck never crossed our minds.The freed buck might live or he could die but at least now he has a chance.The state patrol called the CO officer to let him the bucks were freed.He said the CO would have probably tried to free.They issued us a tag for the deer.As for the horns my buddy and I decided to split the costs for a shoulder mount and share the mount between houses and maybe give it to a small sporting goods store or something along those lines.

[paceman]

Wow that is a cool story! Nicely done guys!

[Gordie]

great job guys a

[hockeybc69]

Quote:

I would have cut the antlers off the live buck. Then you'd have two sets.

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Now how would you go about cutting both antlers off the live buck???