One tough buck...

Don't know any of the details, but thought it was post-worthy...
Dad sent me the email, I'll just copy & paste the text that came with it...

Contender for the Toughest Buck Award.....

This deer had some very uncomfortable days until he was harvested by this hunter. It is obvious that there was a fight during the rut and this deer ended up with an extra antler (embedded below the eye). You can see that the antler from the attacking deer was broke off below the base of the antler as there is still blood on the pedicel. That takes a tremendous amount of pressure. Pretty amazing.

Atleast he fought someone his own size

Pretty cool.

Wow! Thanks for the link OA.
Crazy it was actually growing out of the eye.
I couldn't understand how he would have ripped that antler off another buck,
without just breaking his own eye socket in the process; thus allowing the antler in the eye to be freed.
Still, pretty unusual though.

Never the less it's interesting and always makes you think how cruel mother nature can be.

That had to be from another buck. Poor thing.