Locked horns

[paul pachowicz]

Biglake, I'll try to run down the atricle in the Rapid City Journal or you can try to find it there.

[jkcmj]

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. Keep in mind he would also have poor leverage as his hind quarter was about 4.5 foot high. 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.