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AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:23 PM
So I have been a bit under the weather for the last week or so, not feeling up for riding. I moved 3 weeks ago and have been itching to check out the trails across the street from my new house. So yesterday I take a hike, I see an interesing deer trail off the trail I'm on so I decide to investigate and this is what I found....
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:25 PM
So i'm thinking how did that deer head get in that tree? I look closer.... it's the whole deer in a tree (or what's left of it)
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:25 PM
very strange indeed...
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:27 PM
I'm guessing that one of the following happened:

1. Snow pack this winter was deep, deer was browsing for food (standing on snow), snow gives way... head stuck in the tree
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:29 PM
option #2

Deer is beeing chased by pedator thrashes into tree, gets stuck and then eaten
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:30 PM
option #3, deer often rub antlers on trees to remove them late in the winter, this guy put his antlers in the wrong place and got stuck.... not a good way to go
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:32 PM
option #4, deer gave in to long cold winter, couldnt take it any more so he hung himself
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:34 PM
I'm out of theories.... here is another pic
AA
April 12th, 2005, 09:34 PM
just hanging around...... (I couldnt resist)
MTBME
April 12th, 2005, 10:03 PM
Actually the first option I thought of was

Hunter bags deer, props up in the tree to gut the animal. That would have been a quicker ending from the deers point of view.
AA
April 12th, 2005, 10:12 PM
Actually the first option I thought of was

Hunter bags deer, props up in the tree to gut the animal. That would have been a quicker ending from the deers point of view.


Dont most hunters just gut the deer and drag the whole thing out to be butchered? Looks like this thing was eaten in place by animals (all the bones are on the ground)
truckboy
April 13th, 2005, 09:31 AM
At one of the Redwood forest campgrounds in CA I saw a 2' long section of a tree where the deer had gotten stuck similarly and the tree had grown around the skull. The antlers were sticking out! This one was a case of theory #3. It was a buck with a good sized rack.

Yours looks like it struggled to pull back out. I like theory #1.
ArmOnFire
April 13th, 2005, 09:59 AM
very intriguing
I vote for option 3

where did you move to AA?
AA
April 13th, 2005, 10:23 AM
where did you move to AA?


To the other side of town (big move)
jaime
April 13th, 2005, 10:52 AM
Possible option 5: supernatural spirit force is stalking critters behind your house....

Can't wait to go hiking out there....
nhiker
April 13th, 2005, 11:34 AM
OK option #6 Mountain Lion put his kill into the tree... :o ;)
AA
April 13th, 2005, 11:41 AM
Option #7:

ATV'ers chased deer into the tree ;D













(note to ATV'ers: this is a joke)
Rych
April 13th, 2005, 12:33 PM
Didn't the alien in the movie "Predator" hang his prey from trees?
TrailBate
April 13th, 2005, 02:26 PM
Option #8 Autoerotic asphyxiation

option #9 It's a deer from the future who travelled back in time to see what forests looked like. Picked bad coordinates.

Option #10 Deer owed somebody a lot of money

Option #11 Tree sprang up out of the ground
ArmOnFire
April 13th, 2005, 02:33 PM
Option #8 Autoerotic asphyxiation

option #9 It's a deer from the future who travelled back in time to see what forests looked like. Picked bad coordinates.

Option #10 Deer owed somebody a lot of money

Option #11 Tree sprang up out of the ground


LMAO!