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Three White-tailed Bucks Locked by Antlers

Just about every deer hunter has heard stories about or has even seen, maybe even found, two white-tailed bucks dead after their antlers ended up getting “locked up” during a fight. It’s just not that uncommon for bucks to get their antlers locked together while fighting. However, slim to none have heard of three bucks after becoming locked! As rare as it may be, check out the photos of these three white-tailed bucks that were found locked during the rut.

The bucks were located on a ranch in East-Central Texas and from the information that I received one of the bucks was still alive when the trio was found. Apparently, the antlers were cut from the dead deer and one very tired buck was lucky enough to run back off into the woods. He was probably greeted by another ornery buck looking to kick his butt yet again.

The urge to breed is a powerful one. It seems plausible that two bucks would fight for the the breeding rights to a doe or to an area, but it’s wild that another buck would pile on, too. Whitetail bucks must just be pumped full of testosterone just prior and during the rut. Don’t get in their way. You just never know!

Deer Attacked by Squirrel!

If you are an avid hunter like me, you have probably seen wildlife do a lot of interesting things out their in the field. In fact, sometimes the events are so strange you almost can’t even believe your eyes! Case in point: I found this video just today — and it shows an unprovoked squirrel attacking a white-tailed deer!

The doe (best I can tell) seems to be minding her business while both critters feed on scattered bird seed that has fallen from a supplemental feeder for birds, but apparently the squirrel is not willing to share his (guessing) scattered bird feed. It’s a short video.

Barbed-Wire Fences and White-tailed Deer

How many times have you seen a deer that died after being caught up in a fence? If you’re like me, it’s probably more often than you’ve wanted. Most often, deer crossing barbed-wire fences get hung up when attempting to jump over and the clear the fence — and then they struggle to their death. It’s unfortunately way to common, but fairly easy to remedy. I’d also recommend it to anyone interesting in preserving or conserving the deer population found in their area.

To avoid “snaring” whitetails on your property make sure the top two wires on your perimeter and cross fences are no closer than 12 inches. This is easy to accomplish when building new fence, but may take more time when modifying existing fence. If you have a barbed wire fence with 6 or more wires, the easiest option is to simply remove the wire second to the top. This will usually be enough to eliminate accidental deer deaths.

On barbed-wire fences with 5 or fewer strands of wire, the only option you may have will be to go back and manually move the wire lower one post at a time. It may take a fair amount of time, but you’ll disable the “fence-trap” and save your deer. It would gut-wrenching to find a mature buck tangle up and dead in a perimeter, cross, food plot or fence surrounding your feeder.

Deer Caught in Fence:

Neat Game Camera Photos

Technology is a great thing and motion-activated cameras are one of the best tools for taking inventory of the deer found on a property. Specifically, digital game cameras make scouting white-tailed deer and other wildlife species easy and fun. It always feels like Christmas day when pulling an SD card out of one of my cameras — can’t wait to get home and open up those folders!

Because game cameras are easy to use and offer the hunter a “window” into the secretive world of wildlife, they have grown rapidly in popularity. The quality has also improved greatly and the price-points have come down too. With all the trail cameras placed out around feeders, food plots, and other random locations, a myriad of photos are taken 24-7.

One of the great things about using motion-triggered cameras around feeders is that it allows us to see some strange wildlife photos that we would otherwise never get to see. From time to time, I hope to share these odd photos I find, receive, and take with you.

Odd Game Camera Photos:

Amazing Game Camera Photo

Cool Game Camera Photos

Amazing Trail Camera Photos

Cool Trail Camera Photos

Neat Game Camera Photos

Neat Trail Camera Photos

Game Camera Photos

The Heart Attack Buck

A Story About a Big White-tailed Buck

I received this “big buck story” via email, so don’t take these unconfirmed facts to heart. Allegedly, the big buck pictured above is named “Heart Attack.” I can plainly see why; this buck has it all. Admittedly, I would probably feel some chest pains rather quickly if this monster white-tailed buck stepped out in front of me! Although I am not a proponent of shooting deer with ear tags, I don’t hold anything against those that do.

With that said, here is how the “Heart Attack” story goes:

“Some guys went on a deer capture in Uvalde County, Texas, about 2-weeks ago and netted this whitetail, “Heart Attack.” The deer scored roughly 248 Boone & Crockett inches. He has 21 points, an inside spread of 32 1/2 inches and an outside spread of 34 1/2 inches.

The big buck is only 4-years old. If you hunt, that probably means something to you. If you don’t, this will. They put a price tag on him of $1 million dollars.

Enjoy the photos. There is one of Heart Attack in velvet and the others are once they had him captured.”