[bcbirdclub] Fw: Locked horns

From: "David & Susan Raines" <rainbrk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:31:53 -0500
A good friend just shared this with me. Thought some of the listers might enjoy 
it as well. Dave R
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From: Kem Owens 
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Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:03 AM
Subject: Locked horns


Ed & David, I figured you might enjoy this one ..... 


photo: Terry and Sherry Bolding 

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 
  
  
  
  
  


 


 
Terry and Sherry, thanks for the great story and photos, and for setting the 
big guy free! 
Maybe now one of our readers has the chance to meet up with him under better 
circumstances. 
-- The eds. 





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