An Ohio buck lost one side of his antler at a Beavercreek, Ohio YMCA swimming pool Saturday evening. The deer -- which appeared "spooked" -- broke through a large window of the facility and landed in the pool. A cleaning person was working at the time and reported the "ruckus." 

"The momentum of the jump" is believed to have propelled him across a five foot deck, landing in the chlorinated water, according to David Thompson, vice president for the YMCA of Greater Dayton, in a story that appeared in the Dayton Daily News Sunday.

By the time the worker arrived on the scene, the deer was already out of the pool, running into walls and knocking equipment about. Animal Control and local police managed to coerce the deer out a door, at which point it ran back into the woods, leaving behind an "awful mess."

A scuba team later found itself shed antler hunting when it retrieved the buck's antler -- which had sunk to the bottom of the pool.

Posted by Corey Graff, Online Editor

What do the words, "No Hunting Allowed" mean to you? If a "picture is worth a thousand words," then a no-hunting policy can be summed up  graphically by the photo below. Leaving the Deer & Deer Hunting offices on Friday, I couldn't help but notice this very young whitetail fawn lying dead alongside the highway. I stopped to shoot this photo. Indeed, it's not a pretty picture, but it did get me thinking about the reality of life and death that all deer hunters are intimitely familiar with.
 
Having friends who live in big cities like Chicago, I've met folks who rarely venture outside of city limits and have limited exposure (if any) to the countryside. Many have virtually no conception of the hunting lifestyle - let alone the idea of carrying capacity of habitat. There's no frame of reference for them to even begin to understand the "big picture" when they see roadkill. But the truth is, without hunters playing the vital role we do to balance deer herds every hunting season, scenes such as this (disturbing as they may be) would become even more rampant than they already are.

One of our readers captured a photo of this coyote with a mouthful of whitetail fawn. "Over the past several years, I have occasionaly come across fawn body parts where a coyote killed a fawn and ate it, but I never knew they were strong enough to carry them around in their mouth like a rabbit or some smaller prey," wrote Bill.

Loyal D&DH reader Tim Andrus sent in these photos of two locked bucks, found in Kansas this spring while turkey hunting.

Writes Andrus:

This spring while hunting in Kansas with my buddy Gene Pearcy of Kansas Whitetails Adventures in Benedict, Kansas, we were setting up on some gobblers that we had located earlier in the day and while sneaking down a draw we found an outfitters nightmare: Two quality bucks locked up from last season's rut. Both were 9pts; the larger one grossed 157 inches and the other 142 inches! A shame to have 2 quality bucks die without recognition! The only good thing is that they will be displayed at Gene's lodge for years to come.

(Editor's note: And they'll be displayed here in the Deer & Deer Hunting blog - where they'll get plenty of recognition! Thanks, Tim!)