Bucks Locked Together
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From: clattin
05-Dec-18
Found these 2 beauties locked together on my farm in Smith county a week and a half ago. Its a shame to see them die this way. I did a quick and rough measurment of the bigger of the two and its right at 161". I got salvage tags and am doing a euro mount of them locked together. Would have MUCH rather seen them from my stand!
Chris
From: Bodyman
05-Dec-18
Old mother nature can sure be crule
From: Catscratch
05-Dec-18
Too cool!
From: keepemsharp
05-Dec-18
On;y happens with the big ones, a real tough way to go.
From: sitO
05-Dec-18
That's a cool find Chris, hope we get to see it when the mount is done!
Would be a horrible way to go for sure!
From: Copperhead
05-Dec-18
Testosterone got the best of both of them. They had a lot of living left in them if they just could have gotten along. LOL
But yeah, mother nature can be cruel.
From: t-roy
05-Dec-18
Bummer, Chris, but at least you found them! A good friend found a pair locked up several years back and had a euro display done with his. Very cool. Would like to see your mounts when finished, too. Did you have any trailcam pics of either buck?
From: ksq232
05-Dec-18
I know a fella in OK who got ahold of a locked set, he painted one in OSU colors and the other in OU colors and put it in his wall in their game room over a house divided tag. It looked great! Cool find, but a tough one too on your own farm.
From: Slate
05-Dec-18
Cool find but a shame indeed. Found a good buck tangled in a farmers fence a couple years back. The fence was dragged pretty far but it finally got the best of him. I cleaned up the fence so if wouldn’t happen again.
From: clattin
05-Dec-18
This is a pic of the larger one, I believe. From a neighbors trail cam.
Chris
From: clattin
05-Dec-18
And on a more morbid note....you should have seen the pit they dug out of the ground from all the struggling. Very sad. What I suspect happened, is that the larger buck (on the left in the pics) broke the other one's neck at some point and then had the dead body hooked to him. I only base this on the weird angle of the neck of the smaller one and it "seemed" to be easier to cut through his neck. Pure speculation on my part though.
Chris
From: stealthycat
05-Dec-18
locked in that way is even rarer ....
From: KC
05-Dec-18
found these 2 a couple of years back. An eleven and a thirteen point
From: clattin
05-Dec-18
KC....looks like they dug out a pretty good pit also. DId you do anything special with the antlers/heads?
Chris
From: Rambo
06-Dec-18
What's really sick to me is that one of these guys died by coyotes ripping him apart. I hope I never find a par of deer on my hunting spots locked up like these.
From: Rambo
06-Dec-18
What's really sick to me is that one of these guys died by coyotes ripping him apart. I hope I never find a par of deer on my hunting spots locked up like these.
From: KC
06-Dec-18
Landowner salvaged them
From: KsRancher
06-Dec-18
Had a friend send these to me a few years ago. He isn't a hunter, was just out checking cattle and came across them. They looked really fresh. Coyotes had got them yet
From: Thornton
06-Dec-18
Melvern lake this year
From: KsRancher
06-Dec-18
I have never personally seen a set locked. But they must be more common than a person thinks. My dad kept seeing coyotes around his house for a week. There is a small wooded drainage right behind his house. So he decided to take a walk and see what the coyotes were around for. Down in the trees about 100-150yds from his house was a live buck with a dead buck locked to him. The coyotes about had the dead one picked clean. He called the local game warden. He came down with a reciprocating saw and was able to cut them apart. The live one was thin but did run off.
From: Thornton
06-Dec-18
You can cut them apart with a chainsaw. It kind of freaks them out though
From: keepemsharp
07-Dec-18
Our local warden used to carry some 20 ga. slugs to bow off an antler to free them.
From: Cazador
07-Dec-18
Quick take a picture!
From: sitO
07-Dec-18
From: Bodyman
07-Dec-18
Be carefull Sit those things Cary leprosy
From: sitO
07-Dec-18
I didn't touch it Fran, besides... I think I'm the one who told you they carry leprosy lol?
It's a play on "Cazi complex"...just missing one thing ;?)
From: Kansasclipper
07-Dec-18
Sito I thought that was a picture of you and Slate.
From: Tejas
08-Dec-18
Some cool pics of locked bucks! Has to be a gruesome death though! Mother Nature is a biatch!
From: clattin
09-Dec-18
Kyle,
Was that 2 ramadillo's locked together?? LOL
Chris
From: Thornton
11-Dec-18
I toasted one with a 20 gauge yesterday
