Poachers suck

[JimmyHoffa]

sometimes the WDFW will cut the antlers off bucks that have been road killed, just like that.
Looks like coyotes have already been at it as well.

yeah, there's a spot I drive past that I think is the game warden deer dump.  Drove by it yesterday and there were four deer laying there.  I've seen deer dumped there over the years, and the first time I saw one thought it could've been poached.  Had a bullet hole and antlers cut off.  Then not long after there was another.  So I add to the pile, and cruise by slowly now in case of coyotes.

[Jonathan_S]

Hannibal Lecter 



Very mangled but that looks more like a doe than a buck to me.  Just the shape of the neck and head.

[tgomez]

Don't think someone would cut the skull of a doe fellas, but this is just my  . Wonder if he jumped a fence and started to gut himself? Scene it happen on hit deer before. Shot off the road, antlers removed. Nature waste nothing though, predators will turn to a bone pile within days! Their will always be poachers and trespassers, sucks but is part of hunting now. That's what game wardens are for, and the poaching hotline.

[C-Money]

Could be just as easy what the OP said it was.... a poacher.

[skeeter 20i]

There's a spot over in Spangle where road kill gets dumped off and they cut the antlers off just like in the picture.