Did he live or die?
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I think Rob would be the expert on this one.... I'm sure he'll chime in. If he lived he'll be on Rob's wall soon enough!
I think Rob would be the expert on this one.... I'm sure he'll chime in. If he lived he'll be on Rob's wall soon enough!
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I would be inclined to say he is dead, but I shot a buck a bunch of years ago whose beam came down around his jaw line. When I cut his skull I found that his skull had been broken, with a bigger piece that what is on the antler Magicman posted, then it twisted downward and healed that way. It looked like it had been healed for quite some time by the amount of bone growth and it was an older deer. He is the only true mature deer I've shot and we estimate him at 4.5 + years old.
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I think Rob would be the expert on this one.... I'm sure he'll chime in. If he lived he'll be on Rob's wall soon enough!
I think Rob would be the expert on this one.... I'm sure he'll chime in. If he lived he'll be on Rob's wall soon enough!
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I would be inclined to say he is dead, but I shot a buck a bunch of years ago whose beam came down around his jaw line. When I cut his skull I found that his skull had been broken, with a bigger piece that what is on the antler Magicman posted, then it twisted downward and healed that way. It looked like it had been healed for quite some time by the amount of bone growth and it was an older deer. He is the only true mature deer I've shot and we estimate him at 4.5 + years old.
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my wife is part of a neurosurgery team. they see humans with small parts of their skull missing pretty frequently. many of these people die despite being in the care of neurosurgeons, living inside instead of out in the snow, not being stalked by opportunistic predators that spot weaknesses like head trauma pretty well, and a whole lot of other things that make life as a deer harder. I would guess its pretty dead. Cool find.