Stag with a bright red lifebuoy tangled in its antlers.

whydave

So anyone seen this fella !
posted on RTE

Half-cocked

In the Irish Times today. Some guff from NPWS about the need to tranquilize the animal and free it. I suspect they will permanently tranquilize it when Joe public ain't around;)

Deerspotter

I saw a stag shot once with what appeared to be a flare parachute wrapped up in its antlers - the stag seemed to be very distressed by it, judging by his behavior before it was shot.

I guess it obstructs their vision, if there is some strings or fabric hanging down??

Grizzly 45

Poor animal will proably end up strangling itself to death on some trees or with the rope before it casts it antlers.:(:(
If you came across an animal like that on the Continent,even if it is off season ,you are allowed to dispatch it at once under the animal welfare law of preventing further suffering.
That NPWS statement is a sop of a PR statement.Animal wil have died horribly before either events happen.:rolleyes::mad:.

odders

this stag was spoted a few mins walk from the upper lake in glendalough in the last few weeks

deeksofdoom

bazza888

wheres that picture from deeks?

deeksofdoom

bazza888 wrote: »

wheres that picture from deeks?

I took it.

Is that high tensile electric fencing? Or is my eyesight getting worse?

deeksofdoom

The two bucks had a fight at one point they locked heads on with an electric fence between them. The bigger older buck broke the younger ones neck, after dragging him around the place he collapsed with exhaustion. He was found the next morning and shot.

bazza888

nice one deeks,i didnt think it was ireland!

bazza888

what happened his nose something eating at it or damaged fighting?

deeksofdoom

Crows and mags.

Half-cocked

In the hunting museum in Budapest you can see 2 Red Deer heads that got their antlers locked and died stuck together, without the aid of any manmade rubbish.

Deerspotter

I saw two moose skeletons like this in the wilds of Alaska about 10 years ago - of-course no camera and too far from anywhere to even consider taking the antlers...
It looked like they locked antlers and starved to death, perhaps.

tfox

I read something somewhere of 3 bucks getting entangled together and all dying, someone found them and got them mounted :rolleyes: Will try and root out the article from the many mounds of shooting mags :P

Half-cocked

Found the photo of the 2 stags in the Budapest hunting museum. Well worth a visit if you like trophies.

bazza888

theres a link for the 3 locked together tfox
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/deer-hunting/2010/12/triple-tragedy-three-bucks-drown-antlers-locked

zeissman

I took a mate out for a stalk a couple of years ago and I spotted what seemed to be a deer laying dead in a grass field.
As we approached it we seen that it was still alive.
It had its antlers tangled in a piece of nylon rope that was buried in the ground.
It had the rope wrapped around so tight that its head was stuck to the ground.
My mate got his knife out and cut him free and he ran off into the wood.
It was the only buck we seen that day.

Tackleberrywho

My cousins had to free a fallow buck from one of these.

He was eating hay in very hard weather when feed was scarce

Neither were hunters so they had some job freeing him, I think they had to cut the bar on the feeder to get him out