Author Topic: Tangled Whitetails (Read 5709 times)

Curly · « **on:** January 14, 2009, 09:37:21 AM »

I received an email w/ pics showing two tangled bucks. I'll see if I can post the pics correctly along w/ the story that goes with them.
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On November 6, a relative, Dona 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 .
-Terry and Sherry Bolding

Geno · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2009, 09:40:31 AM »

That's cool!

croix · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2009, 09:52:52 AM »

Wow! Not likely to experience that again. Good job and thanks for sharing.

kramman · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2009, 10:09:00 AM »

WOW great story great pics good deed.well done curly.i think you scored some karma points on this one.

strutnrut1984 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2009, 10:15:30 AM »

that was wild i really enjoyed the pics and story

Curly · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2009, 10:45:04 AM »

Quote from: kramman on January 14, 2009, 10:09:00 AM

WOW great story great pics good deed.well done curly.i think you scored some karma points on this one.

I don't get any karma points for this. I just posted the pics and story from an email that got sent to me. I don't even know who those people are. I just thought it was a cool story and pics so I thought I'd share. But yeah......Terry and Sherry Bolding should get some karma points.

jeepasaurusrex · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2009, 11:00:43 AM »

Would them points help them get drawn for the tag they want?

I got that same Email the other day.. great story.

Head-shot · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2009, 08:10:53 PM »

that's crazy...Sure don't see that everyday.

bowhunterforever · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2009, 08:19:32 PM »

Cool find and awsome pics!

smdave · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2009, 08:35:13 PM »

I do not remember the story behind these, someone on here sent them to me to resize last year so they could post them.

hogsniper · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2009, 08:57:55 PM »

They have yellow tags in their ears so I would assume those last three are farmed deer....Dont know the story though!!!

Thenewguy · « **Reply #11 on:** January 14, 2009, 09:10:22 PM »

just when i think i have seen the craziest *censored*...

robb92 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2009, 09:15:58 PM »

At least the buck could live to fight another day!!! Thanks for posting the pics

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 17, 2009, 10:48:20 PM »

I got this email on Friday as well. Quite a story.

If you haven't seen them, there are some pretty cool deer fights on youtube. Couple of fatalities.

huntnphool · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2009, 12:09:19 AM »

Excellent Curly, thanks for sharing the pics and story.

bam · « **Reply #15 on:** January 18, 2009, 08:54:30 AM »

We had this happen back home in Kansas, back there if you called the game wardens to help they would just come out and shoot the deer and load them up. Claimed that the live buck was so exhausted from the effort he would just go off bed down and die. Good effort by the guys in the story!

MLBowhunting · « **Reply #16 on:** January 18, 2009, 10:28:21 PM »

excellent glad to see they didnt kill the buck cuz he was a bomber

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 18, 2009, 10:41:58 PM »

Yeah, but I wonder what his chances really are. He had to have been pretty beat up and exhausted. Looked like that other deer had been dead for a few days. Also, that area is well known for it's short, mild winters...

Anybody ever watch Fargo?

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