Stretch Whitetail? Record Book Neck!

[Smokepole]

Anybody ever seen a deer with a giraffe neck.  My partner drug this thing into camp.  Wondering if bucks can get a stretched neck from fighting, or if it is some kind of disease?  There is a llama ranch near where this buck was harvested.  Is it a possible llama/whitetail cross?  The meat tasted o.k., but it was a little stringy. 

So if anybody knows... tell me what gives?

Much appreciated.

[Gobble]

My guess is the bullet deflected and severed the vertebrae in the neck and the soft tissue around it is stretched out out from pulling/hanging it

[NWBREW]

  I don't believe a smaller buck like that would do much serious fighting.

[quadrafire]

My guess is the bullet deflected and severed the vertebrae in the neck and the soft tissue around it is stretched out out from pulling/hanging it

I agree. That shot took out the spine

[Shootmoore]

I agree, you have a broken spine on that buck.

Shootmoore

[Smokepole]

I think he said he drug it a few miles.   

[DeerHarvester]

Looks to me like your partner drug the *censored* out of that deer with a broken spin   He must be a big o'l boy!  

[carpsniperg2]

yep the drag or bullet cut the spin and then streched out with the drag.

[Smokepole]

Well...

He said when he shot it, it was reaching for apples like eight or ten feet up in the tree.  Pretty sure the neck was stretched like that before the shot. 
 

[Michelle_Nelson]

It looks like the back is broken for 1 and 2 the neck is really skinny on that deer.  Making the neck look even longer.  Deer does not look deformed to me and I have seen a LOT of whitetails.  It doesn't help that you have it hung up by the hear with over 100lbs pulling down on that broken back and neck.

[Bearhunter]

Looks to me like you partner should use something other than his 50. cal and focus more on shot placement!