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These was taken last week in Spicewood.  One of the bucks neck was already broken.  It took the taxi. 45 minutes to untangle them.

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Got this email... Thought I'd share...

Two Texas Bucks….Double Drop and Handle Bars…located at the 50X Ranch…….Both bucks were shot...

Opening Day was a tremendous success with two deer harvested scoring over 200 inches. The combination of these two deer brought the best of what everyone would want in a whitetail. The 245 pound double droptine buck had a total of 17 points and measured in at an incredible 235 inches. While many hunters look for a deer with droptines, others look for width. The second deer was 250 pounds and measured 28 1/2 inches inside and 32 inches outside spread. This 15 pointer scored 210 inches.

We pulled up onto one of the ponds on my lease to find a hoof sticking out of the water in the middle.  Our initial thought is that it was a managment buck that had been wounded by a hunter the week before. Well when we hooked and pulled the body out with a gaft we found that it was actually two bucks none being the management deer and both being trophy class bucks.  The tall horned typical 12 on the right is a 7 1/2 + yr old buck that we named Pitch Fork and have hunted hard the past couple of seasons only to find him on our game cams twice each year.  He ended up scoring 167".  The second is a 4 1/2 yr old 7X5 that we had seen regularly all season and was high on the list as a future trophy.  He ended up taping out at 154".  The horns were kept and will be mounted locked up but the true prize of harvesting as a trophy whitetail has been lost. 

This has been sent to me about 6 times. I do not know the story but apparently these three got into a serious skuffle. Do not know if it is true. If anyone has info post it. www.texashuntco.com www.redriverboars.com

Got this via email:

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.

These two bucks were found locked in battle in a swamp near Henning Minnesota. They figure Both bucks had been frozen in the ice for about two weeks. A man returning back to camp noticed the  tines sticking out of the ice. One is a main frame 150 class eight and the other has eighteen points scoring in the 190's. Truley two Monarchs.