Shot this guy last Sunday. When I grabbed his antlers I noticed that one of them felt a little 'loose'. When I boiled the skull, one of the antler sets fell off and exposed the damage. I figured that he broke it fighting another deer. It must have happened a little while ago, because it appears to have bone growth on the edges of the wound.

That happens at times when things get rough.

Back in winter of '73, a muley forkhorn buck half tame came to the folks ranch yard and made friendly so they adopted him. They had a couple colts and they chased each other much of the summer.

One day Dad was in for lunch, 8y.o niece was in the yard with the colt n buck. Started screaming so Dad ran out to see, figuring she'd gotten into a rattlesnake.

There she was backed against the fence with bucks horns on each side, butting her in the chest. He roped the buck, then the rodeo was on! They had a hell of a battle I guess. Ended up with Dad getting him wrestled into a garage stall they used for calving at times. Got him hogtied like a calf only all four legs. Then sawed 'em off with a hacksaw. One had broken out of the skull. It never healed over winter.

In Jan, the buck followed them down the road when they came to town. Tracks in the snow showed someone had gotten him into a car/truck. They never saw it again.

When I got home end of Jan, went looking and saw a young buck at a game farm with several other animals. This one also had the same side horn broken out of the skull and both stubs sawed off short. We figured that was the same one and knowing the guy that had it then he was in good hands so the folks never contacted Dean about it.

From what Dad said, that was one hell of a battle once the rope got around the bucks neck. He sure was glad it wasn't a full grown buck.

George

I shot a buck with weird antlers once. Didn't think much about it and had the skull bleached for a Euro mount. You can clearly see where the skull was fractured and completely healed. Similar to yours it looked like the antler was busted loose at the skull plate then healed back up.

Years ago, I shot a buck that appeared to have only one antler. When I went up to him, I found that the other antler was out of position. It was tightly wrapped down and under the deer's lower jaw. When I cleaned the skull, I found that the section of skull that the antler was attached to was fractured and had pivoted down to its resting place, under the lower jaw. The fracture was almost completely healed.

Mike

Wounds draw all the minerals and so fourth to the wound, and things happen elsewhere..break a deer "right leg" with a bullet and chances of him having a deformed "left horn" are about 90%..

The deformed part will always be on the opposite side of the injury..

Brings to mind to teach a horse to turn right your involving the left side of his brain and visa versa..