Glenn McCullough
Member
I got this in an email and thought it shoud be shared,the 4th and 5th photos should be reversed.
On November 6, a relative, Donna 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.
We estimated the other buck had been dead for 2 or 3 days.
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 chain saw, 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 .
On November 6, a relative, Donna 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.
We estimated the other buck had been dead for 2 or 3 days.
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 chain saw, 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 .
