That is a plenty damn interesting article, THANKS for posting it.

I'd never heard of Betz before your posting Nickudu - thanks for rectifying that omission. Excellent writing - and amusing rendition of a 'charging murder buck' by the illustrator.

Quite obviously a man who had never actually seen a Roe Buck! Then again he just may have confused it with a Red Stag mentioned elsewhere in the text.....

Rgds Ian

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Originally posted by IanF:
Quite obviously a man who had never actually seen a Roe Buck! Then again he just may have confused it with a Red Stag mentioned elsewhere in the text..... Rgds Ian

He was quite likely only familiar with our "Sears-Roebuck", which were very big at the time.

rotfl

Ian

There are in fact "murder" roe bucks. I have one skull hanging just in front of me, it is a threepoint on the left and was a forkhorn on the right. One end however of the fork was broken off, leaving a smooth spear, so to speak.

This guy or least we presumed it was him, had killed a couple of good bucks and taken over a territory of a good trophy buck, now also on my wall. Apparently the straight antler did penetrate straight towards the skulls when the bucks were fighting, perforating them and leaving them prone to brain infection. We found two already dead and one severly ill, the maggots literally eatingg his brains out, all of them "punctured" in the same spot between their antlers.

After he gor killed, the above mentioned trophy buck again appeared in the area.