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.