by Tom Wiest, The Oak Ridge Observer
posted November 4, 2009
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On Sunday a hunter discovered two fighting bucks, an eight-point and a ten-point, with antlers firmly locked together.
This was in an archery-only area near Y-12.
The hunter shot one of the bucks, but could not extricate the other live deer, even after the three tumbled down a hillside during the effort.
Some Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers came to help and they could not budge the jammed antlers.
By this time the living buck was beyond exhaustion and near death.
The decision was made that, since the hunter had another buck tag for the ORR hunt in December, he would be allowed to fill that tag with the second deer.
The belligerent bucks will be mounted with antlers entangled as in death.
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