Warning: Don't Try This At Home! The Wallewein Ranch, near Sunburst, Montana, was the scene of two locked bucks that had roughed one another up when neighbors of the Wallewein's found them.
According to the
greatfallstribune.com, "The deer had been at it for awhile," Mike Wallewein said. "They had
been going through barbed wire fences and there was a lot of blood on
their legs. When we got there they were still in the corral and were
lying down. They were just whipped but when we got there they jumped up
and away they went through another fence."
The story continued:
"We hazed them into a hedgerow of caragana and they crashed back and
forth through the trees," Wallewein said. "Then they tripped up and
threw themselves down and that is when we jumped on them. One got up
and we had to throw him back down."
One deer's antler had pierced
the other's tongue and had gone through the lower jaw while the other's
had pierced the first deer's face under the eye.
"Those horns
locked up tighter than if they had grown that way. We struggled for
awhile and the only way I could get them apart was spreading the two
and getting the one out of the mouth and over nose. The other side, I
could see, was going to come unlocked fairly easily."
Jesse and
Lance sat on one deer while Mike Wallewein sat on the other. He told
his kids to get ready to jump when he got the deer undone.
"I
undone them. The one with the horn through its mouth took off. I was
sitting on the other one and I jumped up but it just lay there. It was
so winded. It gave me a chance to count the points. I rolled it over
with my foot and then it jumped up and took off."
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:01:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)