Contender for the Toughest Buck Award…..
This deer had some very uncomfortable days until he was harvested by this hunter. It is obvious that there was a fight during the rut and this deer ended up with an extra antler (embedded below the eye). You can see that the antler from the attacking deer was broke off below the base of the antler as there is still blood on the pedicel. That takes a tremendous amount of pressure. Pretty amazing.
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These pictures are making their way around the inter-tubes recently. Pretty cool pics of three bucks in Ohio that antler locked and ended up drowning.
See more pics of at Field & Stream
Everyone finds this so amazing when in reality triple lockups happen quite often. See this post.
Also, whitetail bucks locking up and then drowning is not so rare either. Check this out.
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They were found on November 16 near Henning , MN
Here’s the story… the guy that found them had left his stand Sunday morning and was walking back to the shack when he noticed a tine sticking out of the swamp grass just off the side of a four wheeler trail. He walked over to check it out and found the two bucks frozen in the swamp ice with only about one foot of each deer’s side and about 10 inches of the tines above the ice. After getting help from some hunting partners, they managed to chop the deer out of the ice and get them loaded onto a flatbed trailer. The deer were then brought back to the shack and the word started to spread. The “smaller” of the two was a massive 8 pointer that green scored an estimated 150+ inches and the “larger” monster was a true swamp buck with what was thought to be 18 scorable points and a green score of 190+ inches. From what has been heard since these photos were taken, the two bucks are gaining statewide attention and the larger buck actually has 23 scorable points. It is thought that the bucks had been dead for 2 weeks before being discovered. Because of this, the capes had begun to deteriorate and were not capable of producing a mountable cape. However, new capes have been supplied and the bucks are in the process of being mounted locked together in battle. The twine on the antlers was to prevent the bucks from coming unlocked when the heads were removed. Also, check out the cup on the tip of the main beam on the big guy! Hope you enjoy the pictures. A truly once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Antler lockups happen when two bucks square off and battle for supremecy. It occurs quite often and usually results in death for but sometimes just for one.
Check out these photos from the Palmer Course at La Cantera near San Antonio, Texas. The superintendent had an unusual surprise waiting for him one recent morning.
Likewise, check out all the unusual lockups by clicking the category at left. There is an unusual post of Elk being locked, of one buck surviving while his opponent is eaten by other critters and even a post showing a rancher dislodging two tangled up bucks by shooting off one of the antlers. Good stuff.
Antler lock-ups are where two Whitetail Bucks, or even Bull Elk, battle for supremacy and end up locking their antlers together. We’re talking antlers and not horns. See here for discussion on the difference between horns and antlers.
Here other posts of similar events:
This pair got locked and the winner drug the other around until he got tangled up in a barbed wired fence: Deer Locked Horn-to-Horn
The winner here drug the other around while other critters — assumed Coyotes — ate the loser: Another Deer Locked Horn-to-Horn
Here’s a really cool post about Elk getting antler locked. Amazing Two Bull Elk Locked Horn-to-Horn
My favorite is a 3-way buck lock-up.
See all my posts on Antler Lock-ups here.